Parks, whose birthday was Sunday, is most famous for her part in the Civil Rights movement in 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white rider in defiance of racial ...

The 2023 argument on a bus was compared to Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, the lawsuit said.

Nine months before Rosa Parks rode that bus, a teenager named Claudette Colvin defied Montgomery’s racist bus laws. Colvin refused to vacate her seat to a white woman on March 2nd, 1955.

After refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, Parks was arrested and placed in custody. She was released on bail later that evening. Some even ...

Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing to move out of a seat reserved for white passengers. Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Parks’ protest has precedence in Philadelphia. Nearly a century before she refused to go to the back of the bus, Black women including a prominent teacher named Caroline LeCount defied a ban that ...

When Rosa Parks refused a bus driver's order to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, she helped ignite a citywide bus boycott that became a pivotal event ...

To coincide with Parks' trial on Dec. 5, 1955, the Black women's group the Women's Political Councilinitiated a one-day, citywide bus boycott that was extended through a vote at Holt Street ...

A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriff’s Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken Feb 22, 1956, after she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955 in ...

In this Feb. 22, 1956, file photo, Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955.