Not long after Rosa Parks’s death, the states of Michigan and Ohio marked December 1, 2005, as Rosa Parks Day, and began attempts to make the day an annual observance. In New York City representatives of numerous activist groups declared December 1, 2005, as a Rosa Parks Anniversary Nationwide Day of Absence Against Poverty, Racism and War. ( Read more )

The Bus Boycott On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks had just left her job and was distracted thinking about her efforts to set up a NAACP workshop. When she boarded a bus, she did not realize the driver was the same person who had evicted her from a bus years earlier. ( Read more )

Rosa received two years of high school education at a laboratory school at Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. She dropped out at the beginning of the 11th grade to care for her ill grand- mother. ( Read more )

Rosa Parks Day on December 1 has been observed statewide in Michigan and Ohio and in various communities across the United States. It is a day to commemorate December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African-American civil rights activist, refused an order to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white passenger, sparking a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. ( Read more )