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 ...

Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery buses ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks made her historic civil rights stand by refusing to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Had she noticed who was behind the wheel, she probably ...

Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley considers Dec. 1, 1955, one of the most significant days in American history. He tells host Scott Tong why — it was the day Rosa Parks was arrested for ...

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

On this day in 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., Rosa Parks, an African-American, rejected bus driver James Blake’s order to relinquish her seat in the “colored section” to a white passenger, after the ...

Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery buses ...