American civil rights activist Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat for a white man was the catalyst for the Montgomery bus boycott. Civil rights icon Rosa Parks waves to the audience before receiving the Congessional Medal of Honor at a ceremony 28 November 1999 in Detroit.

Feb 4, 2020 · In this iconic photo, Parks waited to board a bus at the end of the boycott on Dec. 26, 1956, with the modern Civil Rights Movement just beginning. Parks died in 2005 after a lifetime of...

Mar 16, 2024 · Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the Congress of the United States dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day American Civil Rights Movement". Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey a bus driver's demand that she give up her seat to a white ...

American civil rights activist Rosa Parks smiling after a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation on city public transit vehicles took effect. Parks' arrest on December 1st, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white person led to the successful 381 day Montgomery bus boycott.

Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks speaks to the crowd at the Poor People's March on Washington, the campaign organized by Martin Luther King, Jr and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to gain economic justice for poor people, Washington, DC, 6/20/1968. Photo by Warren K. Leffler.

American civil rights activist Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat for a white man was the catalyst for the Montgomery bus boycott.

Rosa Parks portrait collection. Dates / Origin Date Created: 1950 - 1959 (Approximate) Library locations Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division Shelf locator: Sc Photo Parks, Rosa Topics Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005 African American women civil rights workers African Americans-- Civil rights-- 1950-1989

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Jan 31, 2025 · Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man ignited the American civil rights movement. Because she played a leading role in the Montgomery bus boycott, she is called the ‘mother of the civil rights movement.’

American civil rights activist Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city bus system on December 21st, 1956; the man sitting behind Parks is Nicholas C Chriss, a reporter for United Press International out of …