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On December 13, the new Rosa Parks Railway Station opened in Paris, France. 2016: The house lived in by Rosa Parks's brother, Sylvester McCauley, his wife Daisy, and their 13 children, and where Rosa Parks often visited and stayed after leaving Montgomery, was bought by her niece Rhea McCauley for $500 and donated to the artist Ryan Mendoza.
At Averroès & Rosa Parks had its world premiere on 16 February 2024, as part of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, in Berlinale Special. [2] [7] [8] It was released in French theaters on 20 March 2024 by Les Films du Losange. [4]
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks is a 2002 American short documentary film directed by Robert Houston and produced by Robert Hudson about the 1955/56 Montgomery bus boycott led by Rosa Parks. [1] [2] [3]
60 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white man in Alabama, knowingly violating her city's racial segregation laws.
On December 1, 1955, after a tiring day at work, Rosa Parks took a seat in the designated "colored" section of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. When the "White" section at the front filled up, the driver, James Blake, ordered Parks to relinquish her seat, as was the practice. She refused, and was arrested and jailed.
Parks, after being arrested, was fined $10 plus $4 in court fees (a total of $161.11 as of 12 Mar 2024). [9] Later, Blake contacted the police and signed the warrant for her arrest (Chapter 6, Section 11, of the city code gave drivers police powers for the racial assignment of seats.) [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The arrest sparked the Montgomery bus boycott ...
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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Sep 2019 at 10:20:01 (UTC). Original – Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey in February 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama after her arrest in December 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated public bus, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.