Rosa Parks was a radical, civil right activist who spent years fighting for justice and she knew exactly what she was doing. In fact, she wasn’t even the first black woman to refuse to give up ...

Rosa Parks took a historic stand against racial segregation when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1, 1955. The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement ...

It was a small act of defiance, but Rosa Parks' refusal, as a black woman, to give up her bus seat to a white man, would change the course of American history. On 1 December 1955, the 42-year-old ...

One person who tried to change this was Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, Rosa was on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was told to give up her bus seat to a white person. She said "No".