Two blocks from the spot where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, 17-year-old Tanesha Wilson listens to earbuds as she waits for the No. 8. She takes two buses… ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. The incident sparked a year-long boycott of the ...

I n December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful ...

This year marks the 68th anniversary of Parks’ brave act of civil disobedience, which sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. By Rayna Reid Rayford · Updated December 3, 2023 ...

67 years: Montgomery reflects on Rosa Parks, Bus Boycott and struggle against segregation Starting Dec. 1, the city will host several days of events honoring civil rights heroes and their fight to ...

S ince at least 2024, social media users have claimed that Raymond Parks, the husband of civil rights/ bus boycott activist Rosa Parks, had a car.. One post on X from May 2025 that repeated the ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., which sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery buses by the black community ...

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., in this Feb. 22, 1956 file photo, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1 ...