Parks wasn’t the first Black bus rider to get arrested for not leaving a bus seat in Montgomery. Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin did the same thing nine months earlier.

When Rosa Parks refused on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 1955, to give up her bus seat so that a white man could sit, it is unlikely that she fully realized the forces she had set into motion and the ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...

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. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. Parks was a lifelong activist.

On the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest on a Montgomery bus, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell is leading an effort in Congress to make Dec. 1 a federal holiday.

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a social movement. Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, and died at th… ...

The bus Rosa Parks made history on is at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn Michigan. ... she was then arrested for violating a law that segregated public buses.

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.

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

The bus Rosa Parks made history on is at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn Michigan. ... she was then arrested for violating a law that segregated public buses.