Metro is placing signs reading “Rosa Parks Day: Today this seat is reserved to honor Rosa Parks” on one seat in every bus. (Courtesy WMATA) Metro is setting aside one seat on every bus in its ...
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 of ...
WASHINGTON — Editor's note: The video attached to the article is from a story WUSA9 did in December of 2016. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is paying tribute to the legacy ...
WASHINGTON — Editor's note: The video attached to the article is from a story WUSA9 did in December of 2016. The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is paying tribute to the legacy ...
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” is now featured front-and-center on a Citilink bus, 68 years after she stood up for her rights by sitting down in a segregated bus.
On the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest, The Henry Ford will offer free museum admission, giving visitors a chance to ...
A Citilink bus adorned with unique artwork paying tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been on the streets of Fort Wayne for only a few weeks, and it’s already turning heads. The ...
It’s the 67th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ infamous protest that changed the course of history. On December 1, 1955, Parks made the ultimate decision to be still in protest by refusing to relinquish her ...
When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956. She was among some 100 people charged with violating segregation laws. Parks, refusal to move to the back of a ...
In February 1957, the Alabama Court of Appeals upheld her 1955 bus arrest conviction for violating segregation rules that ...