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President Obama incorporated Rosa Parks into his campaign fundraising pitch today, sitting in her bus asking supporters to imitate the mother of the civil rights movement by supporting f his ...
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 ...
The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955 after Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat. Black taxi drivers provided alternative transportation for thousands of boycotters.
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 paid tribute ...
Don’t Miss A Story. American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks poses as she works as a seamstress, shortly after the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, in February 1956.
The Pistons' partnership doesn't stop with just free bus fare for one weekend. They also created a commemorative merchandise line which will be available for sale starting Feb. 4.
MATA said Memphis actress Raven Martin will perform a monologue on a Memphis bus in commemoration of Rosa Parks Day. Riders can board the 50 Poplar on the stop next to the Benjamin L. Hooks ...
Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Ala., in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Now 82, she says that justice from the court system is overdue.