Rosa Parks, the activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus entered into civil rights iconography, felt she had been “pushed around all her life”. A collection of writings by the late ...

Rosa Parks to BBC: 'When I refused to move, he had me arrested' The repercussions were swift. The bus was stopped, and Parks was promptly arrested by local police. On 5 December, she was found ...

She took a seat and made history. Sixty years ago Tuesday Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Six participants of that boycott gathered Monday at ...

Rosa Parks wasn't the first black person to refuse to move to the back of the bus—nine months before, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin had done the same thing, and there were many others—but she ...