The 2023 argument on a bus was compared to Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, the lawsuit ...

A Black man sues Jefferson Bus Lines for racial discrimination after being told to board from the back of a bus.

What you might not have known is that this wasn’t Parks’ first time protesting for civil rights “on a bus.” More than a decade earlier, in 1943 Parks was trying to get “to the clerk’s ...

Rosa Parks, the Alabama ... Civil-rights icon “stood up by sitting down” on bus in 1955 . Originally published October 25, 2005 at 12:00 am Updated October 25, 2005 at 12:36 pm ...

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil ... The bus, once decrepit after sitting in a Montgomery field for 30 years, was restored to the way it looked on Dec. 1, 1955, when Parks made her defiant stand.

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after she refused to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger, in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. Underwood Archives/Getty Images 1.

A sign picturing Rosa Parks sitting in front of the bus, looking out the window held an honorary seat in her honor.

Knoxville Area Transit will honor Rosa Parks on Sunday, Dec. 1, by keeping one seat open on every bus. The seat will feature a placard recognizing the contribution Parks made and how the small act ...

Citilink Bus Driver Kimberla Easterly-Hudson says Rosa Parks made it possible for her to sit in the seat she does today. Easterly-Hudson couldn’t wait to start her shift, “I’m just excited ...

Loretta Jane Gunter was aboard the same bus which Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. (FOX 5) ... "I was sitting there in my world," she said.

Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in 1956 Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Over a century later, her birthday coincides with what is now recognized in Fort Wayne as Transit Equity Day .