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Six decades ago, Rosa Parks, then 42, uttered perhaps the most famous “No” in American history and helped launch the modern civil rights movement — a struggle that many say continues today.
From Soledad O'Brien's SO'B Productions, the full-length documentary 'The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks' debuts on Peacock in 2022.
This was Rosa Parks’s first conflict with that bus driver. If Rosa Parks had been paying attention, she never would have gotten on the bus driven by the tall, blonde, 43-year-old Blake.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery ...
When Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in December 1955, she would go down in history as the symbolic “mother” of the civil rights movement.
The driver of the bus asked Parks and three other Black passengers to give up the seat to the white passengers, but then 42-year-old Parks refused. It’s Rosa Parks Day! Join us at Anacostia ...
In May 1951, William “W.R.” Saxon stepped aboard a Smoky Mountain Stages Inc. bus in Atlanta with his ticket grasped tightly in his hand. Bound for his home in the Southside neighborhood of ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — People across the country are honoring the life and legacy of Rosa Parks. Parks was arrested Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in ...
When she was 15, she was arrested for not giving her seat up to a white woman 9 months before Rosa Parks. The Montgomery Bus Boycott activist, who now lives in Corpus Christi, looks back on that ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Thursday, Dec. 1, Knoxville Area Transit honored the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks by keeping one seat on every bus open. The seats had a placard to recognize how ...