In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ...

Smith, now 94, was reminiscing back to that day 60 years ago when she witnessed Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. “Back then, they would beat ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery after a long day of work. She was tired, just like any other person who had worked hard all day. She sat in the “colored” section ...

“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a ... Before her arrest, Parks was active in the Montgomery branch of the NAACP, even becoming its secretary, and in the summer of 1955 ...

(WSFA) - Montgomery County is the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement where, even behind bars, history has been made. The original mugshots of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Fred Gray ...

"I'm a part of the Montgomery bus boycott story," she said. "Nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested, I was arrested for the same thing," she said. She was in handcuffs, at 15 years old ...

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 ...

It's a gut-wrenching scene, and writers Chris Chibnall and Malorie Blackman should be lauded for not going the obvious route ...

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 ...

which would give black people access to better facilities Her actions led onto the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Some people, such as Rosa Parks, lost their job for supporting the boycott.