While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

Mineola Dozier Smith, 94, was on the bus the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat ... the story of what she saw that day on Dec. 1, 1955. In a pair of interviews over consecutive days ...

In 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 ...

“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned ... and in the summer of 1955 she attended a series of workshops on desegregation, including discussions on the use ...

1. Rosa Parks was a lifelong activist. Rosa Parks is sometimes portrayed as someone who first stood up to power on December 1, 1955. Quite the contrary. “She was not a stranger to activism and ...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have brought forward a bill to add a federal holiday on December 1, honoring Rosa Parks.

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 ...

Themes: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History Month; Civil Rights; justice and equality. The video clip is a dramatisation of Rosa Parks' bus journey on 1 December 1955 in the town of Montgomery ...