leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helping to fuel nationwide efforts to end racial segregation. “In a courageous act of protest 70 years ago, Rosa Parks made a choice that changed the co ...
Smith, now 94, was reminiscing back to that day 60 years ago when she witnessed Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. “Back then, they would beat ...
There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. Racism is when someone ...
Rosa Louise ... segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala. The 381-day city bus boycott that followed launched similar nonviolent protests and demonstrations throughout the United States. Parks stood ...
The day, December 1, would be in honor of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks ... movement," Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white ...
The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal Justice ... to move to the back of the bus, seeking damages for the ...