PostEverything How history got the Rosa Parks story wrong. The quiet seamstress we want on our $10 bill was a radical active in the Black Power movement.

ON THIS DAY: 65 years ago, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. In 1995, she spoke to @DebRobertsABC ...

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Y ou probably think you know the story of Rosa Parks, the seamstress who refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., 60 years ago—on Dec. 1, 1955—and thus galvanized the bus ...

Rosa Parks, the department store seamstress who in a moment of quiet defiance inspired the civil rights movement, was honored on Tuesday with a Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award ...

Tuesday marks 60 years since Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest on December 1, 1955 sparked the 381-day Montgomery ...

Under Jim Crow laws, Rosa Parks was charged with “ignoring a bus driver who directed her to sit in the rear of the bus. ... 1955, arrest of 42-year-old seamstress Rosa Louise McCauley Parks.

It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America’s civil rights movement. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks ...

Today we celebrate the life of Rosa Parks.. The late civil rights movement activist was born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Ala. A seamstress by trade, Parks got nationwide attention in 1955 for ...

Rosa Parks, the Alabama seamstress whose simple act of defiance on a segregated Montgomery bus in 1955 stirred the nonviolent protests of the modern civil rights movement and catapulted an unknown ...

Rosa Parks is best remembered as the African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. It was 1955 in the segregated South and the start of the Montgomery bus boycott.

When Rosa Parks, a seamstress, refused to give up her seat for a white man on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., 61 years ago on Dec. 1, 1955, she became a part of history.