On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The incident sparked a yearlong boycott of ...
Visitors to the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University can learn about her decades of activism before and after that fateful day in 1955.
What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil ...
Decades after the Montgomery Bus Boycott, these activists in Chicago turned to Parks’ playbook to broaden disability access.
Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began ...
Monday, Dec. 1, at 6:06 p.m. will mark exactly 70 years to the minute that Rosa Parks made the historic decision to refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man.
The photos depict Parks at the march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965, which is often credited with galvanizing momentum for ...
In February 1957, the Alabama Court of Appeals upheld her 1955 bus arrest conviction for violating segregation rules that ...
Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of a bus touched off the Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama. Dallas Area Rapid Transit on Monday commemorated her ...
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - SporTran is reserving seats for Rosa Parks on all its buses to mark the 70th anniversary of her refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala. Parks sat on a bus seat in ...
The Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation aims to tell the story of Parks' life beyond the bus while helping Michigan students ...
Memories of the words they spoke 70 years ago have faded, but the sentiment remains. "I felt her passion," Crenshaw said.