Special to GUIDON Called “the mother of the civil rights movement,” Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks’ arrest on December 1, 1955, launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 African-American citizens. A Supreme Court ruling and declining revenues forced the city to desegregate … [Read more...] about Remembering Rosa Parks
