Metro has announced this week that it is honoring Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks on her birthday, Feb. 4.
Metro is placing signs on all trains and buses, reserving a single seat for Parks and her history-changing act of brave civil disobedience against racial segregation on public transit.
Her actions — refusing to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and the subsequent arrest that launched a bus boycott — helped change public transit and the world. – WMATA
Metro has previously honored Parks’ legacy by reserving a seat with a special sign on all buses, and for the first time, a reserved seat will be saved on every train as well.
The sign features an image of Parks saying, “Today, this seat is reserved in honor of Rosa Parks.”
Courtesy – WMATA
