When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...

The first seat on every bus will be reserved in honor of Rosa Parks and her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement, from ...

National City Lines bus No. 2857 on which Rosa Parks rode that day is now on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. WikiMedia Commons The photo below is usually labeled as Parks being ...

She refused and was arrested. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest social movements in the Civil Rights Movement and in history. A booking photo of American civil rights ...

(White House photo by CORBIS/Corbis via ... On December 1, 1955 seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. King first burst on the national leadership ...

But things amped up dramatically in 1955 — when the Montgomery bus boycott brought both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. into the spotlight, and the murder of Emmett Till was seared into ...

were among the "problem pictures" that tested the waters. But things amped up dramatically in 1955 — when the Montgomery bus boycott brought both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. into the ...

were among the “problem pictures” that tested the waters. But things amped up dramatically in 1955 — when the Montgomery bus boycott brought both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. into ...

two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955. Gene Herrick, a retired Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and is known for his ...

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s third annual Day of Action shined a light on the work of Fred Gray and his legacy ...

Hundreds of people have gathered at Bristol Cathedral to remember one of the UK's leading civil rights campaigners. The achievements of Dr Paul Stephenson OBE, who died in November aged 87, were ...