On June 19, 1865, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which he read to ...

A Montgomery (Alabama) Sheriff's Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken ... and Europe.” Parks, who was 92 when she died in 2005, organized the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott to protest ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa ... bus system, a pivotal event in the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks took ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — For the first time, the NFTA is honoring Rosa Parks by reserving a seat in her name on all 300+ buses and paratransit. On every NFTA bus, a sign now marks a seat for Rosa Parks.

The NFTA is honoring Parks with a seat that’s reserved for her. For the first time, on every bus and paratransit bus you’ll find a sign that’s located near the front honoring Rosa Parks and ...

Sadie spoke on the impact that Rosa Parks had when she chose not to give up her seat on that bus on Dec. 1, 1955. (GARY FOURNIER/SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE) Juliette M. Willoughby, J.D., MSW speaks to ...

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 ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus to ride home from her job at a Montgomery, Alabama department store. As directed by city ordinance at that time, Parks, who was African American ...

After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Bus riders in the Ann Arbor area may notice ... is honoring civil rights icon Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each of its buses. “While Transit Equity Day is observed ...

standing by the statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Another statue commemorates Rosa Parks, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat and move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama ...

Affectionately known as the “mother of the civil rights movement,” Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913. She will forever exemplify civil disobedience and defiance—especially ...