Rosa Parks took a historic stand against racial segregation when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1, 1955. The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement ...

On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement.

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. In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill ...

Rosa Parks became one of the major symbols of the civil rights movement after she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in 1955. For 381 days ...

Rosa Parks sparks Civil Rights Movement. On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested and charged with violating an ordinance that required her to relinquish her bus seat to a white passenger.

There’s a reason thousands of people turned out for Rosa Parks’ funeral yesterday. On Dec. 1, 1955, when she refused to lift her bottom from a bus seat in Montgomery so that a white man… ...

Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who is known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This act sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ...

When the civil rights icon refused to give up her seat for a white man on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 1, 1955, she became a part of history.

That woman was Rosa Parks. It is important to understand that in 1955, the South was under Jim Crow law. This meant segregation and no civil rights for African-Americans.