MONTGOMERY, ALA. — Mineola Dozier Smith closed her eyes tightly and rocked back in her chair. Slowly, the images started coming back to her — the crowded bus, the hostile driver, the quiet ...
In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ...
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story widely since Dec. 1, 1955, when she was arrested and jailed for refusing ...
We use buses every day to go to school or into town. It's not unusual, but this story is about a bus journey that changed millions of lives. Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the ...