On that day, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America and made her an inspiration to freedom-...
Parks, 92, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. The incident triggered one of the modern civil rights movement’s earliest landmark events, a 381-day boycott of the bus system organized by the Rev.Martin Luther Ki...