Mineola Dozier Smith, 94, was on the bus the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat ... credited with inspiring the decade-long movement that culminated in the march from Selma to Montgomery ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

Rosa Parks had a previous run-in with bus driver James F ... Martin Luther King Jr. was only 26 when he joined the movement. John Goodwin/Getty Images King was a relative newcomer when he was ...

an African-American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested, sparking a protest campaign that would go down in history as the Montgomery bus boycott -- another key moment in the civil rights movement.

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

Summary: On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, contravening local laws. Parks' actions made her a figurehead of the Civil Rights movement and an ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa ... bus system, a pivotal event in the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks took ...

The video clip is a dramatisation of Rosa Parks' bus journey on 1 December 1955 in ... grew in to what became known as the Civil Rights Movement - a movement that demanded the same rights for ...