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  1. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat so that white passengers could sit in it.

  2. Feb 9, 2010 · In Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws.

  3. Sixty-Six Years After Rosa Parks Took a Seat in Montgomery, Protest Is Alive in America. The civil rights leader likely would have approved of current activists’ work. Kat Eschner. December 1,...

  4. Oct 24, 2005 · February 4, 1913. Date of Death. October 24, 2005. Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

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  5. Oct 25, 2005 · Rosa Parks, 92, died at her home in Detroit on Oct. 24, 2005. Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1956 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on...

  6. Oct 24, 2005 · Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man ignited the American civil rights movement. Because she played a leading role in the Montgomery bus boycott, she is called the ‘mother of the civil rights movement.’.

  7. Nine months later, Rosa Parks - a 42-year-old seamstress and NAACP member- wanted a guaranteed seat on the bus for her ride home after working as a seamstress in a Montgomery department store. After work, she saw a crowded bus stop. Knowing that she would not be able to sit, Parks went to a local drugstore to buy an electric heating pad.

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