Many commenters believed that the rumor discredited Parks, who was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful conclusion a ...

Black civil rights activist Rosa Parks is best known for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955. Her subsequent arrest by law enforcement sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts, ...

In the segregated South, African Americans were denied equality in the workplace, a chance for a decent education and the right to visit restaurants and use restrooms that white people also used. In ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Rosa Parks was an African-American civil rights activist who is best known for her work with the Civil Rights Movement and her arrest for her refusal ...

"We should not need another six decades to recognise the next Claudette Colvin..." Avesta Afshari-Mehr explores the story of Claudette Colvin and what it can tell us about activism.

Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley considers Dec. 1, 1955, one of the most significant days in American history. He tells host Scott Tong why — it was the day Rosa Parks was arrested for ...