Many people – both black and white – knew that segregation wasn’t fair and they protested about it…but little changed. IMAGE 6: Then, one day in 1955, a woman called ROSA PARKS boarded a ...

That woman was Rosa Parks, whose act of defiance became ... Black passengers to give up their seats to white riders. According to the law, Black people had to vacate their seats if there were ...

White people sat at the front of the bus, Black people had to sit at the back ... On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who worked as a seamstress in a department store in Montgomery, Alabama, boarded ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks ... a city bus to a white passenger. To protest her arrest, the Black community ...

The question came from the student who observed that historical figures from the Civil Rights Movement were only shown in black-and-white photos ... helping them connect with figures like Rosa Parks ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story widely since Dec. 1, 1955, when she was arrested and jailed for refusing ...

People have a lot of thoughts on the latest episode of Doctor Who, which focused on civil rights activist Rosa Parks ... before Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white person.

Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History Month; Civil Rights; justice and equality. Summary: On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, contravening ...