This morning, a cable channel showed "The Rosa Parks Story" since it fits in so well with Martin Luther King day.The movie drew me in and kept me in my seat until the very last scene. While most people are aware of Ms. Parks' historical significance, the famous bus scene forms a ce...
Rosa Parks’ legacy Sadly, despite the victory, life wasn’t easy for Rosa and her fellow activists after the boycott. Faced with continued violence and threats by angry white groups, Rosa and Raymond moved to Detroit (a city in the northern US state of Michigan), to live with Rosa’s b...
Rosa Parks. (cover story)Profiles Rosa Parks, who is credited with starting the United States civil rights movement in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Details of her act of defiance, which occurred in Montgomery, Alabama; Background on Parks, who cofounded...
Parks left Montgomery Fair, the department store where she did repairs on men's clothing, as usual on December 1. It was true that she was tired after work and pain in her shoulders, back and neck was troubling her. By chance the bus driver happened to be the very man who had forced...
Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions inspired the leaders of the local Black community to organize the
Parks' memorialization promotes an improbable children's story of social change—one not-angry woman sat down, the country was racial inequality in American soci- ety—a reality that Parks continued to highlight and challenge—and serves contemporary political interests that treat racial injustice as...
1. Parks was not the first African American woman to be arrested for refusing to yield her seat on a Montgomery bus. Nine months before Parks was jailed, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was the first Montgomery bus passenger to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white passen...
When it comes to American history and the Civil Rights movement, there are few figures more important than Rosa Parks. We won't try and retell the entire story here (we couldn’t do it justice!) but if your child is learning about how her refusal to give up her bus seat sparked the...
The truth of who Rosa Parks was and what really lay beneath the 1955 boycott is far different from anything previously written. Learn more about this story now.
refused to give up her bus seat in the "colored section," so that one Caucasian man could have four seats, or two rows, to himself in the "colored section." So many times I've heard Rosa Parks' story told that refused to get up from a seat in the "white section." Not true!