This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began days after Rosa ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks (1913–2005), a 42-year-old African American woman, boarded a bus to return home. She was working as a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama. At the time, seating in ...

Five months into the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a similar boycott began in Tallahassee. In 1957, nine Little Rock teens faced ...

As the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott arrives, USA TODAY Network reporters explored the how the 382-day boycott still echoes through time today, from its reflections in modern society ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Monday, Dec. 1, at 6:06 p.m. will mark exactly 70 years to the minute that Rosa Parks made the historic decision to refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her quiet ...

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.

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil-rights activism up to her final days, has died at 97.