In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful ...

Smith, now 94, was reminiscing back to that day 60 years ago when she witnessed Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. “Back then, they would beat ...

T here’s a seat reserved for Rosa Parks on every Metrobus and Metrorail train today. February 4 is the birthday of the civil rights legend, who died in 2005. WMATA has previously dedicated seats ...

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. Racism is when someone ...

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 ...