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 ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses – which brought them to the brink of bankruptcy.

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 ...

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 a city bus in Montgomery, ...

The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal Justice ... to move to the back of the bus, seeking damages for the ...

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.

Today is the 62nd anniversary of when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Known as the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement" in the 1950s ...

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 ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old seamstress named Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, even after the white bus driver ...

A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa Parks did. On Transit Equity Day on Tuesday, the Ann Arbor Area ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — For the first time, the NFTA is honoring Rosa Parks by reserving a seat in her name on all 300+ buses and paratransit. On every NFTA bus, a sign now marks a seat for Rosa Parks.

“Rosa Parks, like many residents of Lake County today, depended on the bus for essential needs, and we invite the community to honor her legacy by taking a seat dedicated in her name.