Huntsville Transit will honor the legacy of civil rights icon Rosa Parks by offering free rides on Monday. City officials said for the seventh year, there will be free rides on all fixed transit routes to celebrate Rosa Parks Day on Dec.

The Alabama cities of Montgomery and Huntsville will honor the 69th anniversary of the bus boycotts on Rosa Parks Day.

Rosa Parks Day is celebrated every year on December 1 to honor the Alabama native and civil rights icon. This year, Huntsville Transit will offer free bus rides on fixed routes from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

The City of Huntsville and Huntsville Transit is offering free rides on Monday, Dec. 2, to honor the legacy of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

Huntsville Transit buses will run with a reserved seat Dec. 2 to mark Rosa Parks Day. The day commemorates Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on one of Montgomery’s segregated buses Dec. 1, 1955, after the section reserved for white riders filled up.

Sunday will mark the 69th anniversary of Rosa Parks' act of peaceful defiance. Monday, the city transit service will offer free bus rides in her honor.

The City of Tyler said that each Tyler Transit bus will have an honorary reserved seat on Monday for Rosa Parks Day. Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 after she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery,

The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) said it will honor Rosa Parks by placing special interior bus cards inside 400 Ride On Buses throughout December.

In honor of the 69th anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to leave her seat on the bus, KAT remembers her with a plaque on every bus.