In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a ... Parks and her husband lost their jobs after the boycott Soon after the ...

Though activists like Rosa Parks and her husband had been fighting segregation quietly for decades, the Montgomery bus boycott marked the beginning of a new, bigger phase of the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks wrote those words just ... In 1956, five weeks into the bus boycott, Parks lost her job, and so did her husband. She spent the year traveling the country to raise attention and funds ...

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. Racism is when someone ...

This week, we’ll discuss civil rights activist Rosa ... after Parks attended a meeting about Till’s murder, as well as the murders of two black activists, she was taking the bus home from ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses – which brought them to the brink of bankruptcy.