When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus ... While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus sit-in to protest segregation — Bayard Rustin’s is the earliest one I’m aware of — Parks ...

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 ...

Mineola Dozier Smith, 94, was on the bus the day Rosa Parks refused to give ... the Supreme Court decision that outlawed segregation on buses. Parks herself became a civil rights icon, credited ...

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

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important ... had something called ‘segregation’. This meant people of different skin colours ...

As part of an annual celebration to honor the birthday of civil rights activist Rosa Parks ... honors Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a public transit bus in Montgomery, Alabama ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa ... bus system, a pivotal event in the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks took ...

The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in ... pushed back against segregation nine months before Rosa Parks' landmark protest ...