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.
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 1  Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect. 2  Martin Luther King Jr. was the first president of the Mongomery Improvement Association, which organized the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955.