Her steely will sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott 66 years ago. Now her face, captured in that resilient metal, stands at the spot where she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to 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 ...