Alabama Congresswoman ... civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Sewell wants Dec. 1 to become “Rosa Parks Day” to commemorate her 1955 arrest for violating Montgomery’s segregation laws on ...

Rosa Parks wrote those words just a short time after her famous refusal, 60 years ago this month, to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama ... between the segregation and discrimination ...

Born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa Parks (née Rosa Louise McCauley) experienced the horror of racial discrimination ... to take a stand against segregation. She worked closely ...

who grew up in the tiny Alabama town of Union Springs. “Mama taught us to obey.” But on that Monday evening in December, Rosa Parks was in no mood to obey. The soft-spoken seamstress ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to ... had something called ‘segregation’. This meant people of ...

Decades later, in 1955, Rosa Parks challenged racial segregation on buses in Alabama, pioneering a significant civil rights movement. Both women's protests stirred public discourse and led to ...