![The bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, on exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.](https://will.illinois.edu/images/uploads/38215/news20151201_rosa_parks_bus__medium.jpg)
Illinois Sec. of State Remembers Montgomery Bus Boycott
Jesse White, Illinois' longtime Secretary of State, was a student at Alabama State College (now Alabama State University) in Montgomery during the 1950s, and took part in the bus boycott combatting segregation on city buses.