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 suggested text is as follows. IMAGE 7: Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus - and charged with breaking the law. IMAGE 8: But people came to her support - first in ...

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 ...