This week we commemorate the 70 th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 for declining to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, so that a white passenger would not have to stand.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Most stories about Rosa Parks begin on a bus, but this one begins with a walk — from Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church to the museum that bears her name. On the 70th ...

ALL THIS MONTH. WVTM 13 PROJECT COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES ALABAMIANS WHO BROKE BARRIERS AND RAISED THE BAR FOR EVERYONE. PEOPLE LIKE ROSA PARKS, BORN IN TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA, ON FEBRUARY 4TH, 1913 AND LATER ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act triggered the historic Montgomery bus ...

The city of Lafayette, Louisiana, held a ceremony to honor the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic act of defiance. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, ...

U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty and other central Ohio community leaders commemorated the 20-year anniversary of Ohio becoming the first state to have a day to memorialize Rosa Parks, the late Civil Rights ...

This month marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act triggered the historic Montgomery bus ...

December 1 marked the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' courageous refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, an act that helped ignite the modern civil rights movement. Behind the scenes, one ...

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Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began days after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955.

Seventy years ago today, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American woman, made the decision not to give up her seat for a white person. The act would ignite a movement. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...