On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger Today we celebrate the life of Rosa Parks. The late ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa ... bus system, a pivotal event in the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks took ...

The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks ... white bus drivers’ union. Officials in Louisiana responded by overturning Ordinance 222, and the white bus drivers went back to work.

Black people were only allowed to sit at the back. And if the bus got full up, and a white person got on, a black person had to give them their seat. One day in 1955, Rosa Parks decided that she ...

Rosa Parks wrote those words just a short time after her famous refusal, 60 years ago this month, to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, a protest that galvanized a yearlong bus ...