Tuesday marks 60 years since Rosa Louise McCauley Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala., to a white man, becoming an iconic symbol in the Civil Rights Movement. Here are some ...

see the Rosa Parks Barbie). Parks’ courageous bus action is one of the most well-known and broadly taught stories of the Civil Rights Movement. Yet much about how her story is taught is wrong ...

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American ... the inspirational voice of the wider civil rights movement that grew out of the Montgomery bus boycott. He cited the very words of the Founding ...

On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. In these exclusive BBC clips, discover how her courageous act of defiance ...

The Montgomery Bus Boycott: A Movement Is Born Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the most significant events in the Civil Rights Movement.

an African-American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested, sparking a protest campaign that would go down in history as the Montgomery bus boycott -- another key moment in the civil rights movement.

ATLANTA - Rosa Park, whose simple act of ... civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement," sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955. Parks' refusal to give up her seat in the "colored ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a social movement. Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, and died at ...

Citilink’s Rosa Parks Bus was created by artist Theoplis Smith ... the boycott and what it represented for the civil rights movement.” Citilink Operations Supervisor Carl Thomas says Rosa ...

Rosa Parks’ refusal on a Montgomery bus is the stuff of American legend ... more dangerous because a caricature of the civil rights movement, of Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., has been ...