Metro is setting aside one seat on every bus in its 1,500-vehicle fleet to honor Rosa Parks on the 68th anniversary of her famous act of civil disobedience. Click to toggle navigation menu. Headlines ...

To this day, Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery ...

The driver of the bus asked Parks and three other Black passengers to give up the seat to the white passengers, but then 42-year-old Parks refused. It’s Rosa Parks Day! Join us at Anacostia ...

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is honoring the legacy and courage of civil rights icon Rosa Parks with commemorative seats on every seat. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

VIA honors her legacy with a special Rosa Parks seat on every bus. In 1987, Parks attended San Antonio MLK March and rode on a 1950s vintage VIA bus. In 2018 and 2019 , groups of Freedom Riders ...

On December 1, 1955, civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Now 64 years to the date, the Milwaukee Country Transit System honors the Presidential Medal ...

American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956.

Dec. 1 is Rosa Parks Day, the 67th anniversary of when the civil rights leader refused to leave her seat to make room for white passengers on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

On December 1, 1955, civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Now 64 years to the date, the Milwaukee Country Transit System honors the Presidential Medal ...