Parks was arrested Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man, an act that later sparked the 380-day Montgomery bus boycott.

Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted 381 days until ...

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 ...

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat 60 years ago today. — -- Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights ...

Though she had many awards through the years for her quiet strength and persistent hope, including: the Rosa Park Peace Prize in Stockholm in 1994, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996, a day ...

Parks' arrest ignited a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, led by a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is often credited with giving rise to the modern civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks seated toward the front of the bus, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images) ...

It’s been almost 70 years since a Montgomery bus driver ordered Rosa Parks to move to the back of a bus. But it seems history is repeating itself after the same thing happened to two men who are ...

A Citilink bus adorned with unique artwork paying tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been on the streets of Fort Wayne for only a few weeks, and it’s already turning heads. The ...

The 2023 argument on a bus was compared to Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, the lawsuit said.

When bus #2857 was retired in the early 1970s, Roy H. Summerford of Montgomery bought it. At the time, company employees told him that it was the Rosa Parks bus.

On Feb. 27, 2013, a statue of Rosa Parks commissioned by Congress was unveiled in National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, close to what would have been her 100th birthday.