Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began days after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955.
What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil rights movement, began after the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give ...
On the 70th anniversary of the moment that catalyzed the modern Civil Rights movement, the city of Montgomery stopped and remembered.
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - SporTran is reserving seats for Rosa Parks on all its buses to mark the 70th anniversary of her refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala. Parks sat on a bus seat in ...
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 ...
The U.S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation on Montgomery's city buses on Nov. 13, 1956, and a boycott of city buses officially ended just over a month later. An estimated 40,000 Black bus riders ...
Prosecutors said Adan Hernandez-Mayoral pushed the woman off the bus before stabbing her with a knife and running away.
Montgomery, Ala. – Seven decades after Rosa Parks was thrust indelibly into American history for refusing to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, new photos of the Civil Rights Movement icon ...
The bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat is a symbol of her defiance that changed the course of history in America.
VIA Metropolitan Transit will offer fare-free service on Monday in honor of the civil rights icon Rosa Parks. VIA is joining transit agencies and cities across the country in marking a day of ...
Huntsville Transit will offer free bus rides on Monday in honor of Rosa Parks. Monday marks the 70 th anniversary of Parks’ historic refusal to surrender her seat on a Montgomery bus. In recognition ...
Growing up in Montgomery in the 1930s and 1940s, Fred Gray's mother told him that he could do anything in life, as long as he did three things: keep Christ in your life, get a good education, and “don ...