This story was published in 2020. Sixty-five years ago today, 42-year-old Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to head home after working at her job as a seamstress. At the time ...
When we think of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many iconic figures come to mind: Martin Luther King Jr., ...
Today is the 62nd anniversary of when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Known as the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement" in the 1950s ...
In March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did exactly ...
The house is on display in Naples as part of an exhibition called Almost Home - The Rosa Parks ... In 1955 Parks refused to give up her seat on a racially segregated bus in Alabama - a key moment ...