Rosa Parks changed the course of history and sparked the civil rights movement on Dec. 1, 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

H.H. Leonards is the author of Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and Leadership and founder of O Museum in The Mansion in Washington, DC, which was established in 1980 to provide a safe ...

Y ou probably think you know the story of Rosa Parks, the seamstress who refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., 60 years ago—on Dec. 1, 1955—and thus galvanized the bus ...