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Knoxville Area Transit will honor Rosa Parks on Sunday, Dec. 1, by keeping one seat open on every bus. The seat will feature a placard recognizing the contribution Parks made and how the small act ...
WASHINGTON (CIRCA) - Sixty-three years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her Alabama city bus seat to a white man, a mass transit system in Wisconsin reserved a seat for the civil rights icon on ...
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat 60 years ago today. — -- Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights ...
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Metro is reserving a seat on every bus and train on Tuesday to pay tribute to Rosa Parks on what would be her 112th birthday. “Her actions — refusing to give up ...
Parks, who was already involved in efforts to end segregation, became a pioneer for Civil Rights when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in 1955. The act of ...
On December 1, 1955, civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Now 64 years to the date, the Milwaukee Country Transit System honors the Presidential Medal ...
Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.
Parks was arrested Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man, an act that later sparked the 380-day Montgomery bus boycott.
WASHINGTON (CIRCA) - Sixty-three years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her Alabama city bus seat to a white man, a mass transit system in Wisconsin reserved a seat for the civil rights icon on ...
WASHINGTON (CIRCA) - Sixty-three years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her Alabama city bus seat to a white man, a mass transit system in Wisconsin reserved a seat for the civil rights icon on ...