Those in attendance got to see history up close, such as a 1950s era Montgomery city bus. This was the same model of bus that Rosa Parks rode daily and where she had refused to give up her seat.

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. Parks was a lifelong activist.

On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day at the Montgomery Fair department, where she worked as a seamstress. The driver of the bus asked Parks and three other ...

Rosa Parks visits an exhibit illustrating her bus ride of December 1955, at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, July 15, 1995.