Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in ...

In 1956, five weeks into the bus boycott, Parks lost her ... and funds for the movement despite her family’s imperiled finances. Even after the boycott ended, neither Rosa nor Raymond could ...

Summary: On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, contravening local laws. Parks' actions made her a figurehead of the Civil Rights movement and an ...

5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous ...

Remember Rosa Parks? She took a stand to bring attention to racism and discrimination against black Americans by sitting at the front of a bus — at a disgraceful time in America's history when blacks ...

"Rosa Parks was not only the mother of the modern civil rights movement, she was the mother ... for civil rights after refusing to give up her bus seat a half-century ago in Montgomery, Alabama.

Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s ... of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's ...

They were both active in the Civil Rights Movement, with Rosa Parks volunteering as ... for white people were all taken, so the bus driver told Parks to give her seat to a white man, though ...

The video clip is a dramatisation of Rosa Parks' bus journey on 1 December 1955 in ... grew in to what became known as the Civil Rights Movement - a movement that demanded the same rights for ...

Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s ... of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's ...