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 ...

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 ...

Themes: Rosa ... up her seat in the section of the bus reserved for black passengers by a white passenger who had boarded and could not find space in the section reserved for whites. Parks refused ...

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.

a sign now marks a seat for Rosa Parks. It was placed there on Transit Equity Day, which falls on her birthday, which was on February 4. It's been nearly 70 years since Parks refused to give up ...

“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very ... Parks famously has said that she did not refuse to give up her seat on the Montgomery bus because she was physically weak ...

A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa Parks did ... On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.