The prominent activist told children not to be afraid of failure.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WHSV) - Exactly 70 years ago on Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was taken to jail for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, in violation of Montgomery, Alabama’s ...

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.

In the segregated South, African Americans were denied equality in the workplace, a chance for a decent education and the right to visit restaurants and use restrooms that white people also used. In ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This Week In History: 69 years ago, on Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, shown here, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, ...

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 ...

The man also pleaded guilty this week to a charge of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Hezbollah. By Hannah Ziegler Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made ...