arrest of 42-year-old seamstress Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. Under Jim Crow laws, the Tuskegee native had been charged with “ignoring a bus driver who directed her to sit in the rear of the bus.” ...

Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery ...

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, ...

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

The bus in which that stand was taken on in ... number was not recorded in any official documents when Rosa Parks was arrested,” according to the Henry Ford website. When bus #2857 was retired ...

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 ...

We’ve all been taught about Rosa Parks. We’ve seen the picture ... Parks wasn't the first to be arrested on the bus. A number of Black Montgomerians had resisted segregation on Montgomery ...

“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.

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a social movement. Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, and died at ...

Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery ...