In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful ...

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. Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the ...

After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Another statue commemorates Rosa Parks, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat and move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, spurring the 381-day Montgomery Bus ...