Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

It was a typical evening on Dec. 1, 1955 when Rosa Parks boarded the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as a department store seamstress. Parks sat ...

Rosa Parks wasn’t born a household name, nor was she someone seeking fame. She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, in a time when segregation was law and inequality was everywhere.

Rosa Parks did not plan the bus boycotts, but she helped maintain them. ... National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian, 28 Aug. 2018, ...

This is the sole recipe among the approximately 10,000 documents and photographs in the collection. However, Parks wrote of cooking in a manuscript she titled “Early childhood incidents and ...

"Rosa Parks' husband had a car and she took the bus just to be messy," ... National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian, 28 Aug. 2018, ...

On a winter's evening in 1955, a 42-year-old African-American woman named Rosa Parks, tired after a long day of work as a seamstress, boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to get home.

Rosa Parks National Day of Courage is on Feb. 4, ... Courage & Wisdom” of the African-American activist and “Risk It All” to “Stand Up For Something” or “Make It Happen.” ...

In the current lesson on Rosa Parks, segregation is clearly explained: “The law said African Americans had to give up their seats on the bus if a white person wanted to sit down.” ...

Furthermore, the FEA took aim at elementary school students being required to learn "identify" famous African Americans like Rosa Parks, Zora Neale Hurston, and George Washington Carver but not ...