Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus : Code Switch Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old student from Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to yield her bus seat to a white ...

Rosa Parks took a historic stand against racial segregation when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1, 1955.

Under Jim Crow laws, Rosa Parks was charged with “ignoring a bus driver who directed her to sit in the rear of the bus. ... “Negro jailed here for ‘overlooking’ bus segregation. ...

Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

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 ...

67 years: Montgomery reflects on Rosa Parks, Bus Boycott and struggle against segregation Starting Dec. 1, the city will host several days of events honoring civil rights heroes and their fight to ...

On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement.

If Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Boston today, she wouldn’t see black and white sections; she’d see a dysfunctional system that is disproportionately failing the low-income people — largely ...

ATLANTA - Rosa Park, whose simple act of defiance became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement, would be turning 111 on Sunday.. The courage of Parks, often referred to as "the first lady ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a social movement. Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, and died at th… ...

Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955. But Parks' civil rights protest did have a precedent ...