Visitors to the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University can learn about her decades of activism before and after that fateful day in 1955.
On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The incident sparked a yearlong boycott of ...
Seventy years after Rosa Parks’ iconic bus protest, historians highlight Sarah Keys’ earlier legal victory against ...
What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil ...
On the 70th anniversary of the moment that catalyzed the modern Civil Rights movement, the city of Montgomery stopped and remembered.
The U.S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation on Montgomery's city buses on Nov. 13, 1956, and a boycott of city buses ...
Inside this bus on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a soft-spoken African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man, challenging existing segregation laws. (Hand-out, The Henry Ford ...
CU Boulder historian Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders delineates misperceptions surrounding ‘the mother of the Civil Rights Movement’ and the Montgomery Bus Boycott while highlighting Parks’ enduring legacy ...
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