On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL, sparked the Civil Rights Movement. While Parks became an icon, the lesser-known heroes of ...

That began to change on Dec. 1, 1955 — 70 years ago next December — when one woman on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus decided she had had enough of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks ...

We’ve all been taught about Rosa Parks. We’ve seen the picture of her sitting placidly on the bus looking out the window, or maybe the statue of her in the US Capitol, where she is seated ...

Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery ... In the longest piece of the collection, an 11-page document describing a near-rape incident, Parks decisively ...

On December 1, 1955, she was famously arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger — triggering the Montgomery bus boycott. But the Rosa Parks mugshot was not taken that day.

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn't the first person to use a bus ...

After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of ...

American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Lieutenant DH Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, after she was arrested during the Montgomery bus boycott, 22nd February 1956.