While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

Smith, now 94, was reminiscing back to that day 60 years ago when she witnessed Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. “Back then, they would beat ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4th, 1913. Her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus to a white woman in 1955, set off a bus boycott.

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. Racism is when someone ...

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 ...

leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helping to fuel nationwide efforts to end racial segregation. “In a courageous act of protest 70 years ago, Rosa Parks made a choice that changed the co ...

The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal Justice ... to move to the back of the bus, seeking damages for the ...