W hen Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

I just prayed, ‘Lord, please don’t let anything happen to Rosa Parks.'” Parks was charged with disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance. There were other blacks who were arrested ...

Before her arrest, Parks was active in the Montgomery ... Correction: An earlier version of this story had the wrong date for the Rosa Parks’ Library of Congress image. It was taken in March ...

3. Rosa Parks wasn’t the first—or only—person arrested for disrupting bus segregation. On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat on the ...

The suggested text is as follows. IMAGE 7: Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus - and charged with breaking the law. IMAGE 8: But people came to her support - first in ...

The dramatisation ends at the moment of her arrest. Get to know two variations from Margaret Bond's 'Montgomery Variations', inspired by Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott that became a ...