That began to change on Dec. 1, 1955 — 70 years ago next December — when one woman on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus decided she had had enough of segregation and Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks ...
After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of ...
There’s a seat reserved for Rosa Parks on every ... previously dedicated seats to Parks on buses to celebrate her birthday, but the transit agency added them to trains this year. Parks sparked the ...
standing by the statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Another statue commemorates Rosa Parks, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat and move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama ...
Bayway, the public transit service for Bay County, will offer free bus rides on Tuesday. The free rides are in honor of Rosa Parks' birthday and Transit Equity Day. PANAMA CITY — Residents who ...
At about the same time, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested, sparking a protest campaign that would go down in history as the Montgomery bus boycott — another key moment in ...
TARC is saving a seat on every bus in its fleet to honor Rosa Parks and her contribution to the civil rights movement.Each reserved seat will feature a sign reminding passengers of how Parks ...
and that's what Rosa Parks did. On Transit Equity Day on Tuesday, the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority is honoring her pivotal act of defiance that ignited the Montgomery bus boycott by ...