Parks, Rosa People United States North America By Region

On December, 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. She was arrested for disorderly conduct. This lead to the Montgomery Bus Boycott which lasted over a year until the Supreme Court found segregated public transportation to be unconstitutional and ordered Montgomery officials to integrate the service. From 1965 until her retirement, Rosa Parks worked for U.S. Representative John Conyers of Michigan. In 1999 she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor.

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• - Biography and 1995 interview with audio and video.
  
• - Article by Rita Dove honoring Ms. Parks as one of the twenty most influential heroes and icons of the 20th century.
  
• - Legislation introduced by Rep. Julia Carson, D-Ind., to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Rosa Parks passes by a vote of 424 to 1.
  
• - Remarks by Federal Transit Administrator Gordon Linton.
  
• - Michigan, Parks' home state, designates the first Monday after February 4 as Mrs. Rosa L. Parks Day.
  
• - Missouri lawmakers to name a section of highway for Parks after the Ku Klux Klan adopted it for cleanup.
  
• - Parks hires Cochran to represent her.
  
• - An interactive history site with a brief profile and student tributes.
  
• - Article by Dan Horn about the arguments made before the U.S. Court of Appeals.
  
• - An article by Amy Frazier.
  
• - Article and video coverage of the event with links.
  
• - Parks accuses the rap group OutKast of misusing her name in a song.
  
• - Biography, Montgomery Bus Boycott, and photographs.
  
• - Biography with reading list.
  
• - An online activity for grades 7 and 8 about Parks' arrest, the boycott, nonviolence, and the court ruling, with an interview.
  
• - Parks met with Swaziland Queen Sibonelo Mbikiza to discuss a student exchange program between Africa and Park's Pathways to Freedom program.
  
• - Tells the story of Parks' arrest on the 1st of December, 1955, for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat.
  
• - Biographical article based on 1996 interview with Parks.
  
• - Parks wins rights to rosaparks.com from a cybersquatter.
  
  

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