When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...

Many commenters believed that the rumor discredited Parks, who was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycotts, a ...

Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting home from her job as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store on Dec. 1, 1955, when she boarded a Montgomery city bus.

KAT to honor Rosa Parks with an open seat on every bus. ... Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

The first passenger seat in each bus will be off limits, marked with a commemorative sign for Rosa Parks, who was arrested after refusing to give up her seat for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955 ...

Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the Congressional Medal of Freedom in Detroit on Nov. 28, 1999. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the ...

Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus. The incident sparked a yearlong boycott of the buses and helped fuel the U.S. civil rights ...

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott. Credit: Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Parks took a historic stand against racial segregation when she refused to give up her bus seat to a White man in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 1, 1955, and was arrested.

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 ...