National City Lines bus No. 2857 on which Rosa Parks rode that day is now on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. WikiMedia Commons The photo below is usually labeled as Parks being ...

AP Photo/picture alliance On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who worked as a seamstress in a department store in Montgomery, Alabama, boarded a city bus after work and took a seat. She was 42 years ...

She refused and was arrested. This sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the largest social movements in the Civil Rights Movement and in history. A booking photo of American civil rights ...

MARYLAND (DC News Now) — To honor and celebrate the legacy of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, the Montgomery ... He was 97. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick, File) Her arrest and resistance sparked the Montgomery ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT’S THE 25TH ANNUAL ROSA PARKS DAY HERE IN CALIFORNIA. IT’S ALSO KNOWN AS TRANSIT EQUITY DAY IN HONOR OF THE WOMAN WHO REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON A BUS IN ALABAMA. AND TODAY, PEOPLE ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transit Authority of River City will save a seat on every bus in its fleet in remembrance ... and the legacy of Rosa Parks." In celebration of Black History Month, TARC will also partner with ...