There’s a seat reserved for Rosa Parks on every Metrobus and Metrorail train today. February 4 is the birthday of the civil ...
That began to change on Dec. 1, 1955 — 70 years ago next December — when one woman on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus decided she had had enough of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks ...
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL, sparked the Civil Rights Movement. While Parks became an icon, the lesser-known heroes of ...
The bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat is a symbol of her defiance that changed the course of history in America. That bus was once in ruins, but now it sits at the Henry Ford ...