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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prosecutors said Adan Hernandez-Mayoral pushed the woman off the bus before stabbing her with a knife and running away.

The Monterey-Salinas Transit will offer free bus fares systemwide on Monday in honor of Rosa Parks. Dec. 1 marks the anniversary of Parks’ 1955 arrest after she refused to give up her seat to a white ...