Instead, they wanted it to look like a seven-year-old city bus, just like it would have when Rosa Parks boarded in 1955. While the Henry Ford was willing to invest a lot of money into the project ...

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 ...

The Montgomery bus boycott is remembered as one of the earliest mass civil rights protests in American history. It's also the event that helped to make both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in ... for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger.

IMAGE 6: Then, one day in 1955, a woman called ROSA PARKS boarded a bus after work, in a city called Montgomery. What you’ll see now is an actress being Rosa, to tell us what happened on that ...

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

5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous ...

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott Scroll through the images ... As a result, they held a meeting with the city council and T. J. Jemison. This led to a new rule, ‘Ordinance 251 ...