But the day before, Parks’ activist friends had gotten busy organizing a boycott of Montgomery’s bus system. The day after Parks’ conviction, the city’s Black community carpooled ...

Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

In honor of his life of activism, take a look back at his life in photos ... leaving court in Montgomery, Ala. on March 22, 1956, during the height of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott that ultimately led to the Supreme Court ruling declaring segregation on public transportation unconstitutional. But there’s more to know about what ...

Rosa Parks was actively involved in civil rights work long before the famous bus incident. She joined the NAACP in 1943. McDonalds Black History Month - 360Wise ...

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

Along with the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 and the student lunch counter sit-ins of 1960, the Freedom Rides were one of the earliest demonstrations that Gandhian principles of nonviolence could ...

She worked to promote civil rights before the Montgomery bus boycott. She did this by: helping black people to register to vote in elections, which was very difficult under the Jim Crow laws ...