The St. Louis Labor Tribune shares some of the momentous events of the past in Today in Labor History – December 1…
DECEMBER 1
1913 – The Ford Motor Co. introduces the continuous moving assembly line which can produce a complete car every two-and-a-half hours.
1930 – Kellogg cereal adopts six-hour day.
1955 – African-American Rosa Parks refuses to go to the back of a Montgomery, Ala., bus, fueling the growing civil rights movement’s campaign to win desegregation and end the deep South’s “Jim Crow” laws.
A commemorative plaque marks the spot on Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, Ala., where Rosa Parks waited for the bus that changed history. Carol Highsmith
(graphic by Library of Congress)
