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Transit equity day, Sunday 2/4/24, in honor of Black History Month, Rosa Parks, and the significance of transportation history to African-American History

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's a sad story but a necessary one. -- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion , American Public Transportation Association Interestingly, like a lot of history, Rosa Parks wasn't the first to do this, not even in Montgomery, Alabama (" Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin ," NPR).

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African American History Month and Transportation: February 4th | Transit Equity Day

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Photo: Johnny Hanson/Houston Chronicle The battles over transportation access were central to the Civil Rights movement. Transit Equity Day , set by the American Public Transportation Association as February 4th , during African American/Black History Month, is one way to acknowledge this. 9, in Houston.