1 Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Junior had started a movement of non-violent protest in the South. That movement changed civil rights in the United States forever.

2 Instead, we sat in church, eulogizing Rosa Parks, reminiscing about past victories, entombed in nostalgia.

3 He said that Rosa Parks helped to set all Americans free. He said the world knows of her because of a single act of bravery that struck a deadly blow to racial hatred.

4 Rosa Parks and three other black people were seated in the middle area of the bus when a white person got on the bus and wanted a seat.

5 We gave birth to Sojourner Truth, Mark Twain, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Gertrude Stein...

6 Today, we tell about Rosa Parks,[] who has been called the mother of the American civil rights movement.

7 Openly supporting Rosa Parks and her refusal to relinquish her seat to a white bus passenger made him a target for his opponents and his house was bombed.

8 After Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, the city's black residents set out to rally on her behalf.

9 Gay activists are taking a cue from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

10 On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was an unknown black seamstress living in Montgomery, Alabama.

11 Rosa Parks received two of the nation's highest honors for her civil rights activism.

12 Martin Luther King organized a protest to support Rosa Parks. He urged black people to boycott the buses in Montgomery. That boycott lasted three hundred eighty-two days.

13 On December 1, 1955(), Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat on a public bus to a white man. It was a violation of the city's racial segregation laws.

14 When Rosa Parks refused to give up a bus seat reserved for white people, others followed her example in such numbers that it blossomed into the civil rights movement.

15 One day Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was on her way home from work.

16 DETROIT-A dozen nieces and nephews of civil rights icon Rosa Parks have filed an objection to her will in hopes of gaining control of the use of her name and image.

17 Some popular stories about that incident include the statement that Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat because her feet were tired.

18 This red brick Victorian Gothic-style building, completed in 1886, hosted the funeral of congregant Frederick Douglass in 1895 and Rosa Parks a century later.

19 People like Joan of Ark, Albert Einstein, Clara Barton, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Edison and Rosa Parks.

20 The birth of the civil rights movement is often dated to a moment in 1955 when Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to give up her seat on a crowded city bus to a white man.

21 Martin Luther King became its famous spokesman, but he did not live to see many of the results of his work. Rosa Parks did.

22 Pioneering figures in the civil rights movement also make their appearance, including the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Malcolm X.