Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)

Rosa Louise McCauley—known to history by her married name,
Rosa Parks—is born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913.

A lifelong civil rights activist, Parks’ name is synonymous with
her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated
bus in 1955, a defining moment of the civil rights movement.

               
ED DANAHUE

On April 9, 1947, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sent 16
Black and white activists on a bus ride through the American
South to test a recent Supreme Court decision striking down
segregation on interstate bus travel. The so-called Journey of Reconciliation, which lasted two weeks, was an important
precursor to the Freedom Rides of the 1960s.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Your Portland bus rides are getting much
more colorful this June: TriMet is rolling out a bus decorated
with an artistic rendition of the LGBTQ+ flag!

To recognize Pride Month, TriMet is debuting a bus featuring
art by Portland artist Daniel Quasar, entitled “From Progress
To Beyond.”
KATU

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
(February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)

(FOX NEWS) – Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American
seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat
to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public
bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in," Parks said of
her decision to challenge local authority.

Black bus riders were required to sit in the back of the bus,
and to also give up those seats to White riders if the front
seats were filled, under local Montgomery ordinance.

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala. after her arrest for civil disobedience.