The Montgomery bus boycott is remembered as one of the earliest mass civil rights protests in American history. It's also the event that helped to make both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr ...

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 ...

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

5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous ...

Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the pursuit of justice. "I'm a ...

Smith, now 94, was reminiscing back to that day 60 years ago when she witnessed Rosa ... by Parks’ arrest is now etched into history books. There was the year-long Montgomery bus boycott ...

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat ... Rosa didn't fight alone, people organised a bus boycott, which meant they stopped using buses for a year.

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.

The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal ... role in the Montgomery bus boycott during a 1955 meeting at Mt.