She stood up for her rights by staying seated: Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged ... the ...

Marches were organised to protest against segregation…marches that grew in to what became known as the Civil ... Rights Movement - a movement that demanded the same rights for all people. Rosa ...

5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous ...

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 quiet woman whose act of defiance galvanized the civil rights movement. Smith, now 94, was reminiscing back to that day 60 years ago when she witnessed Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to ...