December 1
- National Pie Day
- National Eat a Red Apple Day
- Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day
- Day With(out) Art Day
- Rosa Parks Day
- Faux Fur Friday – First Friday in December
ROSA PARKS DAY
Rosa Parks Day is an American holiday celebrated on February 4 or December 1 in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks.
On December 1, 1955, after a long day of work Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She took her seat in the ‘colored’ section, but as she rode the Cleveland Avenue bus home, the bus began to fill.
The Montgomery city ordinance allowed bus drivers to assign seating. However, it did not permit them to demand a passenger give up their seat. Despite this, bus drivers had customarily required black passengers to give up their seats to white passengers when the public transportation became full.
