In the introduction to his new book John K. Bollard sets the scene for a momentous event which took place seventy years ago: “In the early evening of Thursday, Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was riding home ...

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 ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The incident sparked a yearlong boycott of ...

Sixty-five years ago today, a Black woman from Tuskegee, Alabama changed the course of American history. Rosa Parks, then 42, was arrested on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama on Dec. 1, 1955, when ...

Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin. As a 15-year-old Black girl in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955, Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white girl. But even ...

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 ...

Inside this bus on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a soft-spoken African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man, challenging existing segregation laws. (Hand-out, The Henry Ford ...

Rosa Parks became the face of a movement in Montgomery, Alabama. after refusing to give up her seat to a white man 70 years ago today. That singular act of protest in 1955 sparked a city-wide bus ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - SporTran is reserving seats for Rosa Parks on all its buses to mark the 70th anniversary of her refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala. Parks sat on a bus seat in ...

This Day in History: December 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks refuses to give up bus seat ...