(CNN) --Rosa Parks did not intend to get arrested as she made her way home from work on December 1, 1955. Little did the 42-year-old seamstress know that an act of hers soon would make her a ...

Rosa Parks didn’t know that the 1st of December 1955 was going to be different to any other day…but on that day she decided the time had come…the time to take a stand against the unfairness ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks made her historic civil rights stand by refusing to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Had she noticed who was behind the wheel, she probably ...

Nine years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, Canada’s Viola Desmond was refusing to give up a seat of her own. When she was told she had to sit in a movie ...

Rosa Parks, whose quiet determination led to the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, paved the way for thousands more. Doris Crenshaw, the founder and CEO of the Southern Youth Leadership Development ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus. Little did the 42-year-old know that her act would help end segregation laws in the South. She was on her way home from ...

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died at the age of 92. It was 50 years ago this December that she refused to relinquish her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

A new statue was dedicated to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks in Alabama's capital of Montgomery on Sunday. The bronze monument was unveiled on the 64th anniversary of one of the key moments in ...

Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History Month ... Pause the slideshow after Image 6 to play the video clip. It was December 1st 1955. I don't know why it happened on this day.