The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

Parks lived until she was 92 years old ... On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old seamstress named Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white ...

Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.

Themes: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History Month; Civil Rights; justice and equality. The video clip is a dramatisation of Rosa Parks' bus journey on 1 December 1955 in the town of Montgomery ...

But people came to her support - first in Montgomery where she lived…and then all over ... that demanded the same rights for all people. Rosa Parks became an important figurehead of that ...