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 ...

Object Details Publisher Smithsonian Magazine Description Online primary source: the Montgomery, Alabama, Police Department report of Parks's 1955 arrest, annotated with comments by a Smithsonian ...

On the evening of Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the ...

Parks was not an “accidental activist,” according to Greer. In the 1960s, years after her arrest, she worked with Black Panther Party members and the Black Power movement. “There’s a real ...

The Henry Ford will commemorate the 69th anniversary of Rosa Park's Montgomery bus arrest in 1955 with a special free event, Standing For Justice: Rosa Parks' Detroit on December 1 ...

Yellowing court records from the arrests of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the dawn of the modern civil rights era are being preserved and digitized after being discovered ...

The Rosa Parks Day Act would designate Dec. 1 as a federal holiday marking Parks’ 1955 arrest in Montgomery, Alabama. She refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

WASHINGTON (CIRCA) - Sixty-three years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her Alabama city bus seat to a white man, a mass transit system in Wisconsin reserved a seat for the civil rights icon on ...

DETROIT — Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday evening. She was 92.

Found: Rosa Parks’s Arrest Warrant, and More Traces of Civil Rights History. When the Montgomery bus boycott electrified the struggle against segregation, it was all recorded in appeals bonds, ...

Before her arrest, Parks was active in the Montgomery branch of the NAACP, even becoming its secretary, and in the summer of 1955 she attended a series of workshops on desegregation, including ...