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.

Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old when she refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. The post ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died at 86. Very nearly forgotten by history, Colvin was 15 years old in 1955 when ...

Claudette Colvin, who has died aged 86, emerged in the 2000s as an unsung hero of the American civil rights movement, having ...

Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery ...

Rosa Parks, a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement, is celebrated for her courageous refusal to give up her bus seat ...

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat 60 years ago today. — -- Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights ...

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 ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, a 42 year-old Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, ...

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 ...