Nine months before Rosa Parks rode that bus, a teenager named Claudette Colvin defied Montgomery’s racist bus laws. Colvin refused to vacate her seat to a white woman on March 2nd, 1955.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was also done last year.The saved seats will feature a sign to inform and remind riders of how Parks changed history when she refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in ...

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 ...

Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing to move out of a seat reserved for white passengers. Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Her Dec. 1 action of refusing to give her seat in the black section of the bus to a white man was calculated, but not planned for that time. "I got on it to go home," Parks has said. 3.

MILWAUKEE – It was Dec. 1, 1955 when Rosa Parks courageously refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, setting in motion a Supreme Court ruling that outlawed segregation on public ...

It is part of the transportation authority's Black History Month remembrance of Rosa Parks. The Route 38 bus seat is decorated with flowers and a picture of Parks. (Credit: CBS3) ...

A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriff’s Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken Feb 22, 1956, after she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955 in ...

Dec. 1—MANKATO — Starting Wednesday and continuing through Dec. 8, one seat on every Mankato transit bus will be reserved in honor of Rosa Parks — the second year the city bus system has ...