W hen 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 ...
Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th ... On December 1, 1955, Parks famously refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus ...
Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind ...
A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa Parks did. On Transit Equity ... Alabama. Her arrest sparked a ...
At a press conference earlier this month, Reps. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, and Shomari Figures, D-Ala. introduced legislation to make Rosa Parks Day a federal holiday. The Rosa Parks ...
WELL, LOUISVILLE’S FOURTH DISTRICT IS CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH BUS TOURS ... Parks.” Rosa Parks' refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger led to her arrest and ...
After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of ...
A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa Parks did ... Alabama. Her arrest sparked a yearlong protest that led to a Supreme Court ruling declaring bus segregation unconstitutional.