In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ...
What will our church do, if people in our congregation and community lose some or all of their Medicaid funding?” ...
Many on the Left are wondering what to do against the Trump administration’s vicious assaults on workers, immigrants, and free speech. We can look to the example of US civil rights activists, who kept ...
Cummings had maintained a scrapbook of newspaper articles during the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott. Next to articles describing the arrest of Rosa Parks, he wrote “#2857" and “Blake/#2857.” ...
Some people, such as Rosa Parks, lost their job for supporting the boycott. Some leaders, such as Dr Martin Luther King Jnr, were violently attacked by white supremacists and mistreated by the police.
There was the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, the lawsuit challenging ... But on that Monday evening in December, Rosa Parks was in no mood to obey. The soft-spoken seamstress, then 42, gave ...
"I'm a part of the Montgomery bus boycott story," she said. "Nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested, I was arrested for the same thing," she said. She was in handcuffs, at 15 years old ...
When Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, she was booked into the jail, along with others taking part in the bus boycott, “being fingerprinted ...
Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to ... people organised a bus boycott, which meant they stopped using ...
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 ... to surrender her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala. The 381-day city bus boycott that followed launched similar nonviolent protests ...
The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa ... Montgomery bus system, a pivotal event in the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks ...
The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the ... a leadership role in the Montgomery bus boycott during a 1955 meeting at ...