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 nights thought to be especially dangerous, the children would have to go to bed with their clothes on. That way they would be ready if the family needed to escape." Rosa married Raymond Parks ...

Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History Month; Civil Rights; justice and equality. Summary: On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, contravening ...

Rosa Parks was actively involved in civil rights work long before the famous bus incident. She joined the NAACP in 1943. McDonalds Black History Month - 360Wise ...

Black children weren’t allowed to go to the same ... a black person had to give them their seat. One day in 1955, Rosa Parks decided that she’d had enough of the unfair rules.

She stood up for her rights by staying seated: Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. And it was the year that two white men brutally ...

Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday officially designated Feb. 4 as Rosa Parks Day in Massachusetts, on what would have been the civil rights leader’s 112th birthday.

MONTGOMERY--Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum will celebrate what would have been the Civil Rights icon’s 112th birthday on ...