African-Americans had wilfully violated the segregation of public transport before Rosa Parks, even in her ... 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested nine months earlier for the same crime of ...

Three opportunities arose in 1955 when, at different times, a woman was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. When, on December 1, Rosa Parks was arrested, the leaders ...

Rosa Parks would have turned 112 this weekend. Twenty years after her death, her legacy in the face of Jim Crow laws and her ...

Rosa Parks’ story has been told many times, but rarely in her own words. Here are quotes from Parks throughout the years that speak to the event. “I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on ...

“This brave woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating a ... everywhere,” according to the website. The Rosa Parks bus is located at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan.

Her arrest is credited as inspiring the Montgomery bus boycott which led to the integration of Montgomery’s buses a little over a year later on Dec. 21, 1956. “In honor of Rosa Parks ...

To honor and celebrate the legacy of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) said it will offer free rides across all of its ...

TriMet will once again waive bus and MAX train fares for an entire day next week in honor of celebrated civil rights leader ...

The suggested text is as follows. IMAGE 7: Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus - and charged with breaking the law. IMAGE 8: But people came to her support - first in ...

On Saturday, Feb. 1, Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum will host a celebration of the civil rights figure’s life and legacy ...

The dramatisation ends at the moment of her arrest. Get to know two variations from Margaret Bond's 'Montgomery Variations', inspired by Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott that became a ...