On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old seamstress named Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, even after the white bus driver ...

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat ... which meant they stopped using buses for a year. They walked instead. This bus company lost a lot of money.

She stood up for her rights by staying seated: Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. And it was the year that two white men brutally ...

In the 1950s, Rosa Parks gave the US Civil Rights Movement a huge boost, and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. And it was the year that two white men brutally murdered 14-year-old Emmett Till ...