Sixty-five years ago, a civil rights icon’s rise began with five paragraphs buried on the bottom of Page 9 of The Montgomery Advertiser: “Negro jailed here for ‘overlooking’ bus ...

the Rosa Parks bus project received a whopping $205,000 through the Save America’s Treasures Program to help assist the restoration. Visit our YouTube page (opens in a new tab) Visit our ...

By Sarah Mervosh Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Ala., in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Now 82, she says that justice from the court ...

Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery ... In the longest piece of the collection, an 11-page document describing a near-rape incident, Parks decisively ...

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1 ...

We’ve all been taught about Rosa Parks. We’ve seen the picture of her sitting placidly on the bus looking out the window, or maybe the statue of her in the US Capitol, where she is seated ...

Sixty-five years ago, a civil rights icon’s rise began with five paragraphs buried on the bottom of Page 9 of The Montgomery ... on city buses. Rosa Parks' bus arrest wasn't the first and ...