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67 years: Montgomery reflects on Rosa Parks, Bus Boycott and struggle against segregation Starting Dec. 1, the city will host several days of events honoring civil rights heroes and their fight to ...
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., in this Feb. 22, 1956 file photo, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1 ...
Julian Bond lectured to a history class on Rosa Parks and the origins of the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. An active participant and leader from the early days of the Civil Rights ...
Mrs Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, being fingerprinted after her refusal to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger touched off the bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956.
On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks courageously refused to surrender her bus seat to a White man. She was arrested for violating Chapter 6, Section 10 of the City Code of Montgomery, Ala. This ordinance ...
Remember NAACP leader Rosa Parks who triggered the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott 60 years ago, writes the editorial board.
On the 64th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, we honor Rosa Parks by dedicating this statue in her name. I hope its presence will remind us of the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement ...
MONTGOMERY, AL (WIAT) — Tuesday marks an important milestone in civil rights history — remembering the Montgomery bus boycott. Celebrities, activists and politicians will commemorate the ...
Two blocks from the spot where Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, 17-year-old Tanesha Wilson listens to earbuds as she waits for the No. 8. She takes two buses… ...
Standing on a stage at the corner of Montgomery and Molton streets, Gray discussed how things had changed since Dec. 1, 1955, when seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on bus number ...