Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rosa Parks was a lifelong civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door in their neighborhood, distributing flyers prepared by activists planning a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - 70 years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus, several civil rights luminaries, including the descendants of those who helped organize, lead, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Doris Crenshaw was 12 years old on Dec. 5, 1955, when she and her sister eagerly rushed door to door in their neighborhood, distributing flyers prepared by activists planning a ...

Rosa Parks wasn't the first arrested for defying unjust segregation laws on a Montgomery bus. But when Parks refused a Montgomery bus driver's order to give up her seat on Dec. 1, 1955, she set in ...