Dec. 1, 1955 began a movement in the United States when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus. The Knoxville Transit Authority said her actions shaped how the world works today.

Rosa Parks wrote those words just a short time after her famous refusal, 60 years ago this month, to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, a protest that galvanized a yearlong bus ...

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. Racism is when someone ...

The suggested text is as follows. IMAGE 7: Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus - and charged with breaking the law. IMAGE 8: But people came to her support - first in ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses – which brought them to the brink of bankruptcy.