Many people – both black and white – knew that segregation wasn’t fair and they protested about it…but little changed. IMAGE 6: Then, one day in 1955, a woman called ROSA PARKS boarded a ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks ... a city bus to a white passenger. To protest her arrest, the Black community ...

That woman was Rosa Parks, whose act of defiance became ... Black passengers to give up their seats to white riders. According to the law, Black people had to vacate their seats if there were ...

Rosa Parks' refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger led to her arrest and triggered a wave of protests in Montgomery and communities throughout the South. As a result, Black ...

She refused to give up her bus seat to a white ... when Black history is under attack, it is especially important that we recognize the bravery and heroism of changemakers like Rosa Parks who ...

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 ...