The City of Tallahassee and Leon County commemorated the 69th anniversary of the 1956 bus boycott, sparked by FAMU students, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson.

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott. Credit: Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. At a press ...

When 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 ... for the Montgomery bus boycott and turned her ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — February 4 marks the birthday of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks ... Alabama city bus in 1955. The act of resistance against racial segregation set in motion a massive bus ...

That began to change on Dec. 1, 1955 — 70 years ago next December — when one woman on a Montgomery, Alabama ... boycott lasted 382 days. National City Lines bus No. 2857 on which Rosa Parks ...

Snopes requested vehicle registration and title records from the Alabama Department of ... Library of Congress. "The Bus Boycott | Explore | Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words | Exhibitions at ...

Montgomery and Huntsville will honor the anniversary of bus boycott with museum tours and free bus rides on Rosa Parks Day. The Alabama cities of Montgomery and Huntsville are preparing to honor ...

PARK CITY — They may have received second-class treatment as bus ... month for Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin, civil rights activists who helped spur the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott.

After refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 ... “This brave woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but ...

American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Lieutenant DH Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, after she was arrested during the Montgomery bus boycott, 22nd February 1956.

I MEAN, THANKS TO THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL COUNCIL, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WOMEN WERE -- UNDERPINNED THE BOYCOTT ... 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus after work in Montgomery, Alabama, and sat down.As ...