On December 1, 1955, African-American Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. One year later, on December 20, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregated bus seating illegal. During that year, the forty-two yea
This single page Rosa Parks feature is published by Girl Power, a public education campaign of the U.
Although this collection of lesson plans from the Alabama Department of Archives and History is targeted at teachers, the information and primary sources it contains are valuable for anyone wanting to understand the history of the civil rights movement.
Time Magazine names Rosa Parks as one of the "Heroes and Icons" of the twentieth century.
Get face-to-face with Rosa Parks in my pick-of-the-day site from the Academy of Achievement. The biography and photo gallery are both excellent.
"Mrs. Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley, February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was the first child of James and Leona Edwards McCauley." In 1987, Parks established The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute to carry on her work encouraging youth to
The PBS special Eyes on the Prize The Story of the Movement covers the civil rights movement by focusing on twenty six events.
The Rosa Parks section includes a Parks interview and in-depth coverage of the bus boycott and the subsequent 1956 Supreme Court ruling.
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