Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was the ...

The event falls during Black History Month, which is also the birth month of Rosa Parks.

This week we commemorate the 70 th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 for declining to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, so that a white passenger would not have to stand.

SOLEDAD: MEEK. TIRED. THE "ACCIDENTAL" MATRIARCH OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. FOR DECADES, ROSA PARKS’S LEGACY HAS BEEN AS THE WOMAN WHO REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON A BUS TO A WHITE MAN. BUT THERE ...

SERVING INSTITUTION PROGRAM IN 1992. CALIFORNIA IS HONORING THE LEGACY OF CIVIL RIGHTS ICON ROSA PARKS, AND TODAY, AT THE STATE CAPITOL, AN OLD BUS WAS PARKED FOR THE 24TH ANNUAL CALIFORNIA ROSA PARKS ...

U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty and other central Ohio community leaders commemorated the 20-year anniversary of Ohio becoming the first state to have a day to memorialize Rosa Parks, the late Civil Rights ...

We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to her and to everyone who led or participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, writes SJ Morrison.

Her portrayal focuses on December 1955, when Parks was arrested for refusing to surrender her bus seat, a quiet act of ...