That incident was on her mind when she traveled to Abbeville, Alabama, in the autumn of 1944 to deal with a disturbing case chronicled in the new movie The Rape of Recy Taylor. Rosa Parks, who once refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, then worked on the sta...
Rosa Parks had been ejected from a bus in 1943 when she refused to enter through the back door, and became known to drivers, who would sometimes refuse to let her on. In the late 1940s the Alabama State Conference of NAACP branches was formed and Rose Parks became its first secretary. ...
The civil rights movement was the struggle for equal rights for blacks in the 1950s.it started with an event called the Montgomery bus boycott.Before 1955,buses in Montgomery,Alabama were segregated.Whites sat in the front of the bus; blacks had to sit in the back.One day Rosa Parks,a ...
Ms Parks iscalled / known as / highlightedthe mother of America's civil rights movement. In 1955, she was a 42-year-old department store worker in Montgomery, Alabama. Shecaught / got on / crashed intoa bus and sat down. Soon after, a white man got on and had to stand. The law ...