In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ...

W hen 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 ...

What will our church do, if people in our congregation and community lose some or all of their Medicaid funding?” ...

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 ...

When Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, she was booked into the jail, along with others taking part in the bus boycott, “being fingerprinted ...

Women of color were active before and beyond Rosa Parks, whose refusal to move on a Montgomery city bus on Dec. 1, 1955, helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott. “This year, by it being the 55th ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...

"I'm a part of the Montgomery bus boycott story," she said. "Nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested, I was arrested for the same thing," she said. She was in handcuffs, at 15 years old ...

Jr. were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's First Baptist Church was the site of the May 21 "siege ...

“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned ... she did not refuse to give up her seat on the Montgomery bus because she was physically weak or had tired feet.

The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal ... a leadership role in the Montgomery bus boycott during a 1955 meeting ...