Rosa Parks Day Rally and Unity Walk Date: Friday, Dec. 1 Time: 5:30–6:30 p.m. Location: Steps of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Ave., Montgomery ...

“Mrs. Parks, of course, was the force behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was really the beginning of the most dramatic era of civil rights activism in Montgomery,” Stevenson said.

The Equal Justice Initiative has unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks in its recently built Legacy Plaza in Montgomery. At the Wednesday morning unveiling, EJI founder and Executive Director Bryan ...

Parks' arrest ignited a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, led by a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is often credited with giving rise to the modern civil rights movement.

Though Parks and her husband, Raymond, moved from Montgomery the following year, she returned in 1965 to help lead the final part of the Selma-to-Montgomery march at the Alabama State Capitol.

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you probably didn't know.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Saturday, the Southern Youth Leadership Development Institute recognized nine women as part of its annual Rosa L. Parks Awards Gala. The 2023 Rosa Parks Honorees include: ...

Complete Information About Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Pittsburgh at New Hazlett Theater. Imagine you were told to give up your seat for someone else! This compelling story of ...

"Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott" play is at the New Hazlett Theater on the North Side by Prime Stage this weekend. It's for anyone in third grade and older.

Montgomery County is the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement where, even behind bars, history has been made. That includes mugshots of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. and others still being ...

Alex Gladden, Montgomery Advertiser February 15, 2024 at 5:43 AM·1 min read ...