Friend of Rosa Parks, and Unsung Civil Rights Hero, Points to her Faith as the Source of her Courage

"?having prayer service and Bible training and going to church and Sunday School - for that part of my training I know that's a part of what made me be able to do the things I was able to do."

(Montgomery, Alabama)?CBN News highlights the life and faith of little-known civil rights activist, Johnnie Rebbeca Carr, a Montgomery, Alabama resident who was a close friend of Rosa Parks, and an integral part of the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.

Carr had worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the boycott that made headlines and ultimately brought about the Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation.

Ninety-six-year-old Carr explained what sparked her desire to be a part of the civil rights movement, "When I grew up and began to see how people were being treated that's when I first became very conscious of it. I did not like it. I felt like people were just people."

Carr and her husband also helped pull down walls of segregation in public schools. She names her faith as the reason she had the courage and the will to battle those who fought against change.

"My mother was a devout Christian woman," Carr explained. "A long time ago, going to that table and having meals and having blessings and things and having prayer service and Bible training and going to church and Sunday School - for that part of my training I know that's a part of what made me be able to do the things I was able to do."