When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus sit-in ...

A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa ... on the seat, a card with a quote from Parks about taking action to create change has been placed above the windshield of each bus.

A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa Parks did. On Transit Equity Day on Tuesday, the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority is honoring her pivotal act of defiance that ignited the ...

Like most days, you could've sat anywhere you wanted on WRTA buses Tuesday with the exception of one seat on the right-hand side. A seat reserved for the one and only Rosa Parks ... and head to the ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Metro is reserving a seat on every bus and train on Tuesday to pay tribute to Rosa Parks on what would be her 112th birthday. “Her actions — refusing to give up her seat on ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — February 4 marks the birthday of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks, and 2025 would ... refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in 1955.

ANN ARBOR, MI — Bus riders in the Ann Arbor area may ... is honoring civil rights icon Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each of its buses.

There’s a seat reserved for Rosa Parks on every ... previously dedicated seats to Parks on buses to celebrate her birthday, but the transit agency added them to trains this year. Parks sparked the ...

Metro is reserving a seat on every bus and train on Tuesday to pay tribute to Rosa Parks on what would be her 112th birthday. Some 10 people killed in attack at Swedish school for adults ...

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th ... On December 1, 1955, Parks famously refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus ...

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In much of the South, African Americans were required to sit in the back of city buses and to give up their seats ... bus decided she had had enough of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks ...