In much of the South, African Americans were required to sit in the back of city ... Alabama, bus decided she had had enough of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting ...

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

Nearly 70 years ago, nine months before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, a 15-year-old Claudette Colvin staged a similar protest — but it would be decades before much of the world ...

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th ... On December 1, 1955, Parks famously refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery ... it easy for either of them to get back to earning a living.

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the ...

We’ve all been taught about Rosa ... bus drivers mandated that Black people pay their fare, then get off the bus, and re-board in the back so they wouldn’t even walk by white passengers. Parks ...

The goal wasn't to bring it back to showroom condition, though. Instead, they wanted it to look like a seven-year-old city bus, just like it would have when Rosa Parks boarded in 1955. While the ...

who famously challenged segregation by refusing to move to the back of a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1956. “Guess what: Rosa Parks didn’t sit in the back, and neither am I gonna sit in ...

standing by the statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Another statue commemorates Rosa Parks, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat and move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama ...