Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio.). Beatty said designating Dec. 1 as Rosa Parks Day would not just be a day off work. “It’s a day to ...

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger Today we celebrate the life of Rosa Parks. The late ...