Under Jim Crow laws, Rosa Parks was charged with “ignoring a bus driver who directed her to sit in the rear of the bus. ... 1955, arrest of 42-year-old seamstress Rosa Louise McCauley Parks.

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus : Code Switch Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old student from Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to yield her bus seat to a white ...

The bus Rosa Parks made history on is at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn ... Our goal was to restore the bus to its condition in 1955—a seven-year-old urban transit coach.

Rosa Parks did not plan the bus boycotts, ... I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was 42. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

The bus Rosa Parks made history on is at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn ... Our goal was to restore the bus to its condition in 1955—a seven-year-old urban transit coach.

The bus Rosa Parks made history on is at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn ... Our goal was to restore the bus to its condition in 1955—a seven-year-old urban transit coach.