Nov 9, 2009 · Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions...

Feb 25, 2025 · Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man ignited the American civil rights movement. Because she played a leading role in the Montgomery bus boycott, she is called the ‘mother of the civil rights movement.’

Following their marriage, Raymond and Rosa became involved in the Scottsboro Boys case, concerning a group of nine Black boys who were falsely accused of raping two white women on a train in Paint Rock, Alabama.

Oct 4, 2023 · Born in February 1913, Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in 1955 led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her bravery...

Feb 3, 2010 · Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man.

On December 1, 1955, she boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama and sat in the middle, where Black passengers in that city were allowed to sit unless a white person wanted the seat. As the...

Growing up in Alabama, Rosa struggled to understand why black and white people were treated differently. One day Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white person just because she was...

Feb 20, 2025 · She, her family, and Black communities throughout her home state of Alabama and the southern United States were taunted and violently harassed by the Klu Klux Klan and other white neighbors. It was clear to young Rosa that she could not let her worth be defined by the cruel laws of Jim Crow.

Rosa Parks is often called the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.” Her simple but brave decision not to give up her seat on a bus became a powerful symbol of the fight for equality and justice in America.

Born in 1913 and raised in Montegomery, Rosa Parks lived through many moments witnessing racial discrimination from a very narrowed lens. From the moment she saw school buses carrying white children while black children had to walk, she had understood the discrimination existing as …