On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Relive her activism in photos ...

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

Parks' legacy goes beyond the Dec. 1, 1955, arrest On Oct. 24, 2005, Parks died in Detroit. In her life, she was honored with the Martin Luther King Jr. Award and by the NAACP with the Spingarn Medal.

Rosa Parks took a historic stand against racial segregation when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1, 1955.

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 th… ...

The 2023 argument on a bus was compared to Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, the lawsuit ...

Sixty-eight years ago on this day, December 1 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested “for disobeying an Alabama law requiring Black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was ...

Rosa Parks and her husband standing in front of a car. ... To coincide with Parks' trial on Dec. 5, 1955, the Black women's group the Women's Political Council initiated a one-day, ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson told Vanity Fair in 1988 that Parks said she was motivated in the moment by the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till on Aug. 28, 1955, several months before Parks' protest.

Rosa Parks mugshot in 1955. (Photo courtesy Bureau of Prisons/Getty Images) At the time, Gunter didn't know who was being yelled at, what color they were, or what it was all about.

FILE - Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955.