Take a look back at the history of the civil rights pioneer and her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Iconic civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala., ...
Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...
But the day before, Parks’ activist friends had gotten busy organizing a boycott of Montgomery’s bus system. The day after Parks’ conviction, the city’s Black community carpooled ...
igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott that ultimately led to the Supreme Court ruling declaring segregation on public transportation unconstitutional. But there’s more to know about what ...
Parks' arrest led to a year-long bus boycott by Montgomery's Black residents, and eventually the Supreme Court ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional. On Feb. 23, 1956, a New York Times ...
In honor of his life of activism, take a look back at his life in photos ... leaving court in Montgomery, Ala. on March 22, 1956, during the height of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
On Transit Equity Day on Tuesday, the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority is honoring her pivotal act of defiance that ignited the Montgomery bus boycott by reserving a seat for her on each of ...
Metro is reserving a seat on every bus and train on Tuesday to pay tribute to Rosa Parks on what would be her 112th birthday. “Her actions — refusing ...