The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

Before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, Nashville native Edna Smith defied Jim Crow Fellow Nashville native Stokes Nielson is seeking to honor her legacy nearly a century after she was ...

In 1921, 17-year-old Edna Smith boarded a city streetcar in Nashville on what was known as the Broadway and West End Line. Smith, a young Black woman, was instructed by the driver to sit in the ...

Before Rosa Parks, there was a veteran riding on a bus through Durham who took a stand against racist Jim Crow laws - but he did not survive his action. Posted 2023-11-21T21:51:08+00:00 - Updated ...

On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. ... The arrest was not an isolated event but a consequence of the Jim Crow laws, ...

Before Rosa Parks, there was a veteran riding on a bus through Durham who took a stand against racist Jim Crow laws - but he did not survive his action.

December 1, 1955 is the day when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery Alabama to a man, in defiance of Jim Crow segregation laws. On Sunday, Knoxville Area Transit honored ...

It also was where she lived under Jim Crow laws and had to ... was displayed again when she held meetings in a church on Long Island in 2006 as she sought to start the Brookhaven Rosa Parks ...

Rosa Parks wasn’t born a household name, nor was she someone seeking fame. She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, in a time when segregation was law and inequality was everywhere.

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal, codified system of racial apartheid that dominated the American South. Skip To Content Join the Conversation ...

On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. ... The arrest was not an isolated event but a consequence of the Jim Crow laws, ...