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 ...

Since at least 2024, social media users have claimed that Raymond Parks, the husband of civil rights/ bus boycott activist Rosa Parks, had a car. One post on X from May 2025 that repeated the ...

Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city bus system, Dec. 21, 1956.

"Rosa Parks' husband had a car and she took the bus just to be messy," one Threads user wrote. Social media posts spreading the claim were sometimes accompanied by a picture of Rosa and Raymond ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting home from her job as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store on Dec. 1, 1955, when she boarded a Montgomery city bus.