PostEverything How history got the Rosa Parks story wrong. The quiet seamstress we want on our $10 bill was a radical active in the Black Power movement.

ON THIS DAY: 65 years ago, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. In 1995, she spoke to @DebRobertsABC ...

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Y ou probably think you know the story of Rosa Parks, the seamstress who refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., 60 years ago—on Dec. 1, 1955—and thus galvanized the bus ...

Rosa Parks, the department store seamstress who in a moment of quiet defiance inspired the civil rights movement, was honored on Tuesday with a Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award ...

Under Jim Crow laws, Rosa Parks was charged with “ignoring a bus driver who directed her to sit in the rear of the bus. ... 1955, arrest of 42-year-old seamstress Rosa Louise McCauley Parks.

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955 ...

Rosa Parks, the Alabama seamstress whose simple act of defiance on a segregated Montgomery bus in 1955 stirred the nonviolent protests of the modern civil rights movement and catapulted an unknown ...

The middle-aged seamstress was an unlikely civil rights hero. But when Rosa Parks refused to give up a seat on a segregated bus in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, she became a titan in the struggle ...

Today we celebrate the life of Rosa Parks.. The late civil rights movement activist was born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Ala. A seamstress by trade, Parks got nationwide attention in 1955 for ...

In “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” the icon of the title expresses a hint of frustration at being defined as a seamstress who got tired. “Interviewers still only want to talk about ...

In “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” the icon of the title expresses a hint of frustration at being defined as a seamstress who got tired. “Interviewers still only want to talk about ...