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 ...

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 ...

“Rosa Parks, in many, many ways ... often attributed to the 1955 bus incident, are really from her 1956 arrest for her role as one of the organizers of the boycott, notes Theoharis.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Sunday marks 111 years since the birth of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Her life and legacy were celebrated in Montgomery on Saturday at Troy University’s Rosa Parks ...

Rosa Parks, riding on a Montgomery Area Transit System bus, famously refused to give up ... the Department of Children and Families about the incident. The agency did not immediately respond ...

“The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” combines interviews ... Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man, an incident that sparked the yearlong Montgomery Bus ...

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 ...