TARC will save a seat on every bus in its fleet in remembrance of Parks and her contribution to the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks was actively involved in civil rights work long before the famous bus incident. She joined the NAACP in 1943. McDonalds Black History Month - 360Wise ...

The company's founder, Mike Ilitch, was a benefactor of Rosa ... Parks, then in her 80s, endured a harrowing experience when she was assaulted during a robbery in her Detroit apartment — an ...

Almost 50 years before Rosa Parks defied segregation laws on an Alabama bus, another civil rights ... Her career as an educator ended abruptly after an incident in 1888 in which a male student ...

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But things amped up dramatically in 1955 — when the Montgomery bus boycott brought both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther ... read the UPI headline. The incident lit a fire under him.

But things amped up dramatically in 1955 — when the Montgomery bus boycott brought both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther ... read the UPI headline. The incident lit a fire under him.

Did this painful incident make Thompson ... That same year, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus so a white passenger could sit, sparking the Montgomery ...

Riding TriMet, C-TRAN and Portland Streetcar will be free today in honor of Rosa Parks' Birthday. In December 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in segregated ...

the bus driver replied something to the effect of, “All lives matter.” The recent situation that happened at the transit wasn’t a reenactment of the Rosa Parks demonstration — this ...