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 ...

She was arrested and taken to jail for a few hours ... will go farther from now to greater things. Thank you!" Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as an ordinary woman who took a stand to help ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story widely since Dec. 1, 1955, when she was arrested and jailed for ...