This week, we’ll discuss civil rights activist Rosa Parks ... She was sitting in the front row of the section of the bus allocated to black people. The seats reserved for white people were ...

Rosa Parks wrote ... and other material that Parks apparently wrote during the boycott year and in the late 1950s. They reveal her intimate feelings about white supremacy in America and her ...

Nine months later, on 1 December 1955, also in Montgomery, Rosa Parks was sitting in the seats intended for Black passengers when she refused to give up her seat for a white passenger. Image ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses – which brought them to the brink of bankruptcy.