W hen Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

But on that Monday evening in December, Rosa Parks was in no mood to ... There were other blacks who were arrested for refusing to relinquish their bus seats — other women even — but news ...

3. Rosa Parks wasn’t the first—or only—person arrested for disrupting bus segregation. On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on the ...

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important ... people to be treated the same. She was arrested and taken to jail for a few hours.

which would give black people access to better facilities Her actions led onto the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Some people, such as Rosa Parks, lost their job for supporting the boycott.

On Transit Equity Day, TheRide is honoring Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each bus with a sign commemorating her ...

To protest her arrest, the Black community boycotted the Montgomery bus system, a pivotal event ... “Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned person who wasn ...