Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat 60 years ago today. — -- Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights ...
Sixty-five years ago today, a Black woman from Tuskegee, Alabama changed the course of American history. Rosa Parks, then 42, was arrested on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama on Dec. 1, 1955, when ...
WASHINGTON (CIRCA) - Sixty-three years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her Alabama city bus seat to a white man, a mass transit system in Wisconsin reserved a seat for the civil rights icon on ...
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, a 42 year-old Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, ...