Sixty-five years ago, a civil rights icon’s rise began with five paragraphs buried on the bottom of Page 9 of The Montgomery Advertiser: “Negro jailed here for ‘overlooking’ bus ...

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 ...

By Sarah Mervosh Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Ala., in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Now 82, she says that justice from the court ...

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.

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 ...

Rosa Parks was an elderly black seamstress on her way home from work in 1955, who declined to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery ... on almost every page, The Rebellious Life ...

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-five years ago, a civil rights icon’s rise began with five paragraphs buried on the bottom of Page 9 of The Montgomery ... on city buses. Rosa Parks' bus arrest wasn't the first and ...

My favorite image of Rosa Parks ... So why is Parks’ obituary on the front page of the New York Times? Why did the Montgomery bus boycott turn out to be such a big deal when it was the courts ...