Although the prominence of Rosa Parks is concentrated on the Montgomery, Alabama bus incident of 1955, her character was also displayed through a combination of several other notable acts over her ...

Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery ... But after discussing Colvin's incident with other local African-American ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus. The incident sparked a year-long boycott of the ...

Rosa Parks took a historic ... Blake came nearly a decade before the incident that would shape history. With Blake driving, Parks entered the bus and paid her fare. Blake told Parks to exit ...

Loretta Jane Gunter was aboard the same bus which Rosa Parks refused to surrender her ... Gunter had not told anyone about the incident until 35 years later, when her son was looking through ...

Leonards in the driving seat of her yellow school bus. Leonards would take Rosa Parks to engagements ... more than just one incident—even though it was pivotal. Mrs. Parks was always respectful ...

The Day of Pilgrimage protest, part of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, began with black Montgomery citizens walking to work in 1956 in the wake of the Rosa Parks incident. Martin Luther King Jr. (C ...

On the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest on a Montgomery ... Though she was not the first person to be arrested, the incident inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted for more ...

Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus. The incident sparked ... and the legacy of Rosa Parks." In celebration of Black History ...

Although the prominence of Rosa Parks is concentrated on the Montgomery, Alabama bus incident of 1955, her character was also displayed through a combination of several other notable acts over her ...