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, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

But on that Monday evening in December, Rosa Parks was in no mood to ... There were other blacks who were arrested for refusing to relinquish their bus seats — other women even — but news ...

3. Rosa Parks wasn’t the first—or only—person arrested for disrupting bus segregation. On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on the ...

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important ... people to be treated the same. She was arrested and taken to jail for a few hours.

On Transit Equity Day, TheRide is honoring Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each bus with a sign commemorating her ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

The dramatisation ends at the moment of her arrest. Get to know two variations from Margaret Bond's 'Montgomery Variations', inspired by Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott that became a ...

To protest her arrest, the Black community boycotted the Montgomery bus system, a pivotal event ... “Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned person who wasn ...