It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America's Civil Rights Movement. On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to ...

Dec. 5 marked the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began Dec. 5, 1955, after Rosa Parks’ arrest and grew into a sustained, citywide campaign that helped end legal segregation on ...

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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.

SOLEDAD: MEEK. TIRED. THE "ACCIDENTAL" MATRIARCH OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. FOR DECADES, ROSA PARKS’S LEGACY HAS BEEN AS THE WOMAN WHO REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON A BUS TO A WHITE MAN. BUT THERE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Week In History: 69 years ago, on Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, shown here, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, ...

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 ...

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Selma, has proposed a bill that would make Dec. 1 a federal holiday commemorating the arrest of Rosa Parks. Sewell bill has the backing of the Congressional Black Caucus. The ...