The first step in any Family Court custody case is the filing of the petition. If there has never been any court intervention before, the petition merely needs to allege why the petitioning parent feels he or she would be the person better able to take care of the child or children.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act of protest was considered the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement. For decades, Martin Luther King Jr.'s fame overshadowed hers.
In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the cityâs racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Parkâs historic act of civil disobedience. âThe mother of the civil rights movement,â as Rosa Parks is known, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913.