Metro is setting aside one seat on every bus in its 1,500-vehicle fleet to honor Rosa Parks on the 68th anniversary of her famous act of civil disobedience. Click to toggle navigation menu. Headlines ...

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… ...

Pushing for library integration. The cost to the bus company was far greater, with a boycott that lasted 381 days. At the time of her arrest, she was already actively involved in the NAACP working ...

S ince at least 2024, social media users have claimed that Raymond Parks, the husband of civil rights/ bus boycott activist Rosa Parks, had a car.. One post on X from May 2025 that repeated the ...

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

Rosa Parks seated toward the front of the bus, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images) ...

American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956.

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after she refused to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger, in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. Underwood Archives/Getty Images 1.

A Citilink bus adorned with unique artwork paying tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been on the streets of Fort Wayne for only a few weeks, and it’s already turning heads. The ...

Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting home from her job as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store on Dec. 1, 1955, when she boarded a Montgomery city bus.