Sixty years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus, launching a year long boycott that catapulted the Civil Rights movement in the United States.
Rosa Parks Remembered for Refusal to Give up Bus Seat
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FILE - Rosa Parks visits an exhibit illustrating her bus ride of December, 1955 at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, July 15, 1995.
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FILE - A poster entitled "It All Started On A Bus," is pasted above the front seat of a New York City bus to honor Rosa Parks in New York, Dec. 1, 2005.
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FILE - President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event in Dearborn, Michigan, April 18, 2012.
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FILE - The statue of African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks is seen in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Dec. 1, 2014.