In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was tired of the hatred that her ... Montgomery’s buses were integrated on Dec. 21, 1956, after 381 days of boycott. Thursday, the 67th anniversary of Parks' arrest ...

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., ...

Even after the boycott ended, neither Rosa nor Raymond could find steady work, and in August 1957, still receiving death threats, they left Montgomery for Detroit. Parks said that she found “not ...

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday ... igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott that ultimately led to the Supreme Court ruling declaring segregation ...

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.

Indeed, Rosa Parks was red-baited and received death threats ... before and even during the boycott. In one piece of writing, she explained how she felt “completely alone and desolate as if ...

Four days of celebration and reflection are coming this weekend with the 68th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the legacy of civil rights icon Rosa Parks — who famously refused to give ...

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