a seat will be saved on every TARC bus through February to commemorate Rosa Parks and her contributions in honor of Black History Month. Each seat designated for Parks will have a sign reminding ...

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in ...

After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of ...

Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery ... has stripped her of political substance. Her “life history of being rebellious,” as she put it, comes ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- SEPTA on Wednesday morning unveiled the unique way it'll be celebrating Black History Month ... seat at the front of the bus dedicated to Rosa Parks for the entire month ...

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa ... Black folks for us to learn about, we rarely get the details. On December 1, 1955, Parks famously refused to move to the back of a Montgomery ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery ... Mother Of A Movement” on History Vault By the spring of 1961, her situation ...

Parks’ arrest began the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by a young Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. If approved, Rosa Parks ... to honor a Black woman, or any woman, period, in American history.

Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History Month; Civil Rights; justice and equality. Summary: On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, contravening ...

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted ... Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. “At a time when Black history is under attack, it is especially ...