Transit Equity Day

  • Feb 4
    Rosa Parks' Birthday
It's a Dignity Thing

Transit Equity Day 2026

The Transit Riders Union held a “Bench Drive” alongside People We Meet on the Bus and Indy Bench Mench to support transit rider dignity and fundraise to start TRU. Buyers decorated their benches and placed them at bus stops around Indianapolis for public benefit.

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Honoring Her Legacy

Rosa Parks

 

Rosa Parks became a symbol of the Civil Rights Movement when her refusal to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, helped spark the 1955–56 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her actions demonstrated the power of transit riders to challenge racial segregation and helped advance the broader movement for equal access to public transportation.

Photograph shows Rosa Parks, one of the speakers at a rally near the Washington Monument, Washington D.C. on June 19, 1968 held as part of the Poor People’s Campaign.

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