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Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...
On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger Today we celebrate the life of Rosa Parks. The late ...
Slowly, the images started coming back to her ... Mineola Dozier Smith, 94, was on the bus the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white man. “I was a little bit afraid.
Remember Rosa Parks? She took a stand to bring attention to racism and discrimination against black Americans by sitting at ...
There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. Racism is when someone ...