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"The bus operator said he had a colored female sitting in the white section of the bus, and would not move back."

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Week in History: Nine months before Rosa Parks, police arrested Claudette Colvin for refusing to give up her bus seat.

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.’

Activist Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott that partially ended racial segregation. Read facts about her birth, accomplishments, and more.

Rosa Parks circa 1950 “Our non-violent protest has proven to all that no intelligent right-thinking person is satisfied with less than human rights that are enjoyed by all people.” Every once in a while, one hears a right-wing demagogue in the U.S. compare themselves to Rosa Parks in defense of an unpopular position. Not only … Continue reading "Beyond the Bus: The Story of Rosa Parks’ Lifetime of Civil Rights Activism"

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Prime Stage Theatre’s upcoming presentation of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American whose simple act of personal bravery changed th…