when she refused to give up her seat on that bus in Montgomery, Ala. "She had lost her job for taking the stand that she did," explains Adrienne Cannon, who curates the Rosa Parks papers at the ...

On December 1, 1955, she was famously arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger — triggering the Montgomery bus boycott. But the Rosa Parks mugshot was not taken that day.

H. H. Leonards in the driving seat of her yellow school bus. Leonards would take Rosa Parks to engagements, including at the White House. H. H. Leonards in the driving seat of her yellow school bus.

Since at least 2024, social media users have claimed that Raymond Parks, the husband of civil rights/ bus boycott activist Rosa Parks, had a car. One post on X from May 2025 that repeated the ...

Born in Jacksonville, in 1955, I grew up on the west side of town and ... called “Beyond The Bus.” Mrs. Anita Peek, the Executive Director of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self ...

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A Citilink bus adorned with unique artwork paying tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been on the streets of Fort Wayne for only a few weeks, and it’s already turning heads.

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a social movement. Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, and died at ...

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1 ...

VIA honors her legacy with a special Rosa Parks seat on every bus. In 1987, Parks attended San Antonio MLK March and rode on a 1950s vintage VIA bus. In 2018 and 2019, groups of Freedom Riders ...

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 ...