In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ...
Cummings had maintained a scrapbook of newspaper articles during the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott. Next to articles describing the arrest of Rosa Parks, he wrote “#2857" and “Blake/#2857.” ...
What will our church do, if people in our congregation and community lose some or all of their Medicaid funding?” ...
There was the year-long Montgomery bus boycott, the lawsuit challenging ... But on that Monday evening in December, Rosa Parks was in no mood to obey. The soft-spoken seamstress, then 42, gave ...
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 ...
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses – which brought them to the brink of bankruptcy.
"I'm a part of the Montgomery bus boycott story," she said. "Nine months before Rosa Parks was arrested, I was arrested for the same thing," she said. She was in handcuffs, at 15 years old ...
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima ... Ala. The 381-day city bus boycott that followed launched similar nonviolent protests and demonstrations throughout the United ...
The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the ... nine months before Rosa Parks' landmark protest but has long been overlooked ...