When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to ... While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus sit-in to protest segregation — Bayard Rustin’s is the earliest one I’m aware ...

What will our church do, if people in our congregation and community lose some or all of their Medicaid funding?” ...

MONTGOMERY, ALA. — Mineola Dozier Smith closed her eyes tightly and rocked back in her chair. Slowly, the images started coming back to her — the crowded bus, the hostile driver, the quiet ...

I felt the black people behind me sit up a little straighter ... The video clip is a dramatisation of Rosa Parks' bus journey on 1 December 1955 in the town of Montgomery, Alabama.

"Often times we hear people say today that the civil rights movement started when Rosa Parks sat on the bus in the wrong place, or that it really started with Dr. King. What we fail to recognize ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story widely since Dec. 1, 1955, when she was arrested and jailed for refusing ...

5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous ...

Themes: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History ... the same water fountains… IMAGE 4: Couldn’t even sit in the same place on a bus… IMAGE 5: Many people – both black and white – knew ...