On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Relive her activism in photos ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., which sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery buses by the black community ...

American civil rights activist Rosa Parks poses as she works as a seamstress, shortly after the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, in Montgomery, Alabama, Feb. 1956. (Don Cravens/Getty Images) ...

Metro is setting aside one seat on every bus in its 1,500-vehicle fleet to honor Rosa Parks on the 68th anniversary of her famous act of civil disobedience. Click to toggle navigation menu. Headlines ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful ...

67 years: Montgomery reflects on Rosa Parks, Bus Boycott and struggle against segregation Starting Dec. 1, the city will host several days of events honoring civil rights heroes and their fight to ...

Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you probably didn't know. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

Parks' arrest ignited a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, led by a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is often credited with giving rise to the modern civil rights movement.

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...