Browse historical newspapers from 1955 to 2005 about Rosa Parks, the civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. See photos, headlines, and stories of her arrest, trial, boycott, awards, and legacy. The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a EDITOR'S NOTE: Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955 -- the start of the Montgomery bus boycott -- got relatively little attention, initially. Sixty years ago, on Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks made history by refusing to sit in the segregated area of a bus in Montgomery, Ala. A few months later, Robert S. Bird, writing in The New York Herald Tribune, recalled how her arrest led to the Montgomery bus boycott: On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement. Rosa Parks' Bus . In 1955, December 4, and the Montgomery Advertiser, a general-interest newspaper, published a front-page article on the planned action. A black woman has been arrested by police in Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person. Mrs Rosa Parks now faces a fine for breaking the segregation laws which say black Americans must vacate their seats if there are white passengers left standing. Rosa Parks is an icon whose legacy goes beyond the Dec. 1, 1955, arrest On Oct. 24, 2005, Parks died in Detroit. In her life, she was honored with the Martin Luther King Jr. Award and by the NAACP ROSA PARKS: I left work on my way home, December 1, 1955, about 6:00 in the afternoon. I boarded the bus downtown Montgomery on Court Square. I boarded the bus downtown Montgomery on Court Square. When Rosa Parks refused on the afternoon of Dec. 1, 1955, to give up her bus seat so that a white man could sit, it is unlikely that she fully realized the forces she had set into motion and the Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. Bus in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, currently in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. / THF134576 Accompanying The Henry Ford’s acquisition of the Rosa Parks bus in 2001 was a binder of newspaper clippings recounting the events of Rosa Parks’s arrest and the ensuing bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Dr. Theoharis is a professor of political science and the author of eleven books on the civil rights and Black Power movements including “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” and “The On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a social movement. Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, and died at Early Childhood Incidents and Experiences, ca. 1955-1958. Autograph manuscript. Rosa Parks Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. (Rosa Parks recounts the desertion of her father, James McCauley, and growing up in rural Pine Level, Alabama on the farm of maternal grandparents, Sylvester and Rosa Edwards, with her mother and brother, Leona and Sylvester McCauley.) On Aug. 28, 1955, while visiting family in Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched. Till was then vilified by the mainstream press. Headlines from newspapers such as the Washington Post referred to him as the “Wolf-Whistler.” Clipping found in The Morning Call published in Allentown, Pennsylvania on 12/6/1955. After the arrest of Rosa Parks, thousands boycott Montgomery city lines in protest 1955-56 U.S. newspaper coverage of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Exact spot on Dexter Avenue where Rosa Parks waited for the bus that changed history. Rosa Parks arrest photo. Rosa Parks arrest record. Rosa Park’s recollections of time spent in jail. Memorandum on taking Rosa Park’s case after her arrest. Rosa’s chronology of the bus boycott Clipping found in The Montgomery Advertiser published in Montgomery, Alabama on 12/6/1955. Article about the first day of the bus boycott; mentions Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
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