12 小时之前 · The restored bus was first exhibited at The Henry Ford’s “Celebrate Black History” program that began on February 1, 2003, and was a focal point of celebrations of Rosa Parks’ life and ...

17 小时之前 · WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Metro is reserving a seat on every bus and train on Tuesday to pay tribute to Rosa Parks on what would be her 112th birthday.“Her actions — refusing to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 and the subsequent arrest that launched a bus boycott — helped change public transit and the world,” the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit ...

20 小时之前 · Join us on-air and online at 6:30 p.m. CST on Thursday, Feb. 20, for our special programming, "Project Community: Unsung Heroes of Black History." On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks was on the front of a bus in Montgomery when the bus driver told her to move to the back, which was designated for African Americans. She refused and was arrested.

2 天之前 · This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. In the spring of 1955, when the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, were still divided by the sharp lines of segregation, a young Black girl, just fifteen years old, made a stand that would reverberate through history.

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2010年2月3日 · The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place...

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Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.

2020年12月1日 · On Dec. 4, Parks made the Advertiser’s front page, the day after thousands of letters were distributed calling on Black riders to refrain from riding city buses. The boycott was just supposed...