TheRide buses in Ann Arbor are reserving a seat for Rosa Parks on Transit Equity Day
On Transit Equity Day, TheRide is honoring Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each bus with a sign commemorating her ...
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How The Henry Ford Museum Found And Restored The Bus Rosa Parks Was Arrested For Riding
W hen 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 ...
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Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement
It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...
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Mineola Dozier Smith, 94, recalls witnessing…
Smith, now 94, was reminiscing back to that day 60 years ago when she witnessed Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. “Back then, they would beat ...
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Who was Rosa Parks?
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 ...
In a powerful new book, a hero of the Civil Rights era tells her story to children
Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with ...