What Activists Can Learn from Rosa Parks on the 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott

What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil ...
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How The Henry Ford Museum Found And Restored The Bus Rosa Parks Was Arrested For Riding

When 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 sit-in ...
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Rosa Parks: How a Simple Act Sparked a Civil Rights Revolution

When we think of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many iconic figures come to mind: Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Jeanne Theoharis on the Montgomery Bus Boycott & “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” (Part 2)

Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began ...