Remembering Rosa

Today is also the 50th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. New York is recognizing her action with a poignant homage:

On Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses in New York City and Long Island, the seat behind the driver will be symbolically reserved for the late Parks, whose act of disobedience and subsequent arrest prompted a bus boycott and proved a major turning point in the country's civil rights movement.

Above the seat there will be a poster of Parks, who died Oct. 24 at age 92, with the saying, "It All Started on a Bus.”

Other cities across the country are honoring her with similar tributes.

Hat tip to The Fixer.