MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WCSC) — Rosa Parks was arrested 70 years ago for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, an act of defiance that became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. The 42 ...

This week we commemorate the 70 th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 for declining to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, so that a white passenger would not have to stand.

DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- To commemorate the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white man, The Henry Ford will offer free admission to Henry Ford ...

WASHINGTON — Seventy years ago Monday, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus. Now, Alabama’s first Black congresswoman, Terri Sewell, is pushing to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation on Montgomery's city buses on Nov. 13, 1956, and a boycott of city buses officially ended just over a month later. An estimated 40,000 Black bus riders ...

70 years ago today in Montgomery, Alabama, a quiet act of defiance by a courageous woman helped spark one of the most transformative movements in American history. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a ...

Dorris Crenshaw poses for photos for the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' Bus Boycott, Monday, Nov. 24, 2025, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Doris Crenshaw was 12 ...

Rosa Parks Day celebrated 70 years after the Montgomery Bus Boycott Marchers in Montgomery, Ala., on Monday December 1, 2025, marked the 70th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks, which sparked the ...

Self-care is a bit of a buzzword these days. But for Rosa Parks, it was a deliberate practice and a means of survival in her later years. Long after she refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, ...

On a July morning in 1995, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was the site of the closing ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change’s 20th Annual Summer Workshop on ...