Chapel Hill Transit staff performed Why Should I Move?, a reenactment of the day in 1955 in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, at University Mall on Feb. 4. The performance was part of the town’s celebration of Black History Month.
Photos by Alicia Stemper
Rosa Parks, played by Sheila Neville, sits behind the fare box during Why Should I Move? David Deming plays the bus driver and Brian Litchfield portrays the white man who demanded Rosa's seat.The bus driver, played by David Deming, encourages Rosa Parks, played by Sheila Nevllle, to relinquish her seat to a white man.Steve Spade, director of Chapel Hill Transit, portrays the police officer that arrested Rosa Parks.