Today this seat is reserved to honor Rosa Parks” on one seat in every bus. (Courtesy WMATA) Metro is setting aside one seat on every bus in its 1,500-vehicle fleet to honor Rosa Parks on the ...

After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus ...

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 ...

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.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was tired of the hatred that her city had fallen into — a legalized foolishness of segregation that had officially armed city bus drivers with police powers to enforce ...

Sixty-eight years ago on this day, December 1 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested “for disobeying an Alabama law requiring Black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a social movement. Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, and died at ...

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 ...