Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but her decades of activism before and after reveal a broader legacy. She was a seasoned NAACP organizer, ...

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On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man who had boarded the bus. Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott led ...

Rosa Parks wasn't the first arrested for defying unjust segregation laws on a Montgomery bus. But when Parks refused a Montgomery bus driver's order to give up her seat on Dec. 1, 1955, she set in ...

Jo Ann Robinson strode into Alabama State College in the dead of night. It was early Friday morning. The previous evening, Dec. 1, 1955, a woman named Rosa Parks had been arrested. Robinson, a ...