On Transit Equity Day, TheRide is honoring Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each bus with a sign commemorating her ...

February 4 marks the birthday of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks, and 2025 would ... when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in 1955. The act of resistance against ...

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 ...

3. Rosa Parks wasn’t the first—or only—person arrested for disrupting bus segregation. On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on the ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

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