When we think of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many iconic figures come to mind: Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Rosa Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL, sparked the Civil Rights Movement. While Parks became an icon, the lesser-known heroes of Browder v. Gayle—two ...

In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did exactly ...

5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous ...

With a hostile incoming administration, a massive infrastructure of courts and judges waiting to turn “freedom of speech” into a nostalgic memory, and legacy newsrooms rapidly abandoning their ...

Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History Month; Civil Rights; justice and equality. Summary: On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, contravening ...

In 1955 Parks refused to give up her seat on a ... took it apart and moved it to Berlin for display at his studio. Why Rosa Parks' house travelled 8,000 miles - a 2018 BBC video In 2018, Brown ...

Rosa Parks Breakfast will be held next Sat., Feb. 1, at 9 a.m. at Greater Mount Triumph Missionary Baptist Church. The ...

The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal Justice ... bus boycott during a 1955 meeting at Mt. Zion AME Zion Church ...

notably her arrest in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a bus nine months before Rosa Parks sparked the bus boycotts. Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts ...

Themes: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History Month; Civil Rights; justice and equality. The video clip is a dramatisation of Rosa Parks' bus journey on 1 December 1955 in the town of Montgomery ...