Rules of the day required Black riders to sit in the back of city buses and to give up their seats to white riders if they got crowded. The policy and Parks' arrest prompted Black customers to ...

Her Dec. 1 action of refusing to give her seat in the black section of the bus to a white man was calculated, but not planned for that time. "I got on it to go home," Parks has said. 3.

After refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger ... not have the bus itself, they do have plans in place to honor the beloved activist. $5 movies: Deal celebrates Black excellence in ...

Black bus riders were required to sit in the back of the bus, and to also give up those seats to White riders if the front seats were filled, under local Montgomery ordinance. "After the arrest of ...

public buses in the city were segregated per city law, and the first 10 seats were permanently reserved for white passengers. A diagram at the National Archives shows Parks and three other Black ...

LAKE COUNTY, Ohio (WJW) – The first seat on dozens ... the past this Black History Month. “Equity is really important and, you know, it was signified by the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the ...

Martha White, a Black woman who helped launch the 1953 bus boycotts in Louisiana by daring to sit in a seat reserved for white passengers, has died at age 99. White, whose activism foreshadowed ...