* 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Many of their efforts were acts of non-violent civil disobedience aimed at disrupting the enforcement of racial segregation rules and laws, such as refusing to give up a seat in the black part of the bus to a white person ( Rosa Parks ), or holding sit-ins at all-white diners.

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.

Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation.

Seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955.

Parks said, " My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest ... I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

One day in 1943, Parks boarded the bus and paid the fare.

After working all day, Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus around 6 p. m., Thursday, December 1, 1955, in downtown Montgomery.

The No. 2857 bus on which Parks was riding before her arrest ( a GM " old-look " transit bus, serial number 1132 ), is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.

Parks on a Montgomery bus on December 21, 1956, the day Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated.

In February 1987 she co-founded, with Elaine Eason Steele, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, an institute that runs the " Pathways to Freedom " bus tours which introduce young people to important civil rights and Underground Railroad sites throughout the country.

In 1992, Parks published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography aimed at younger readers, which recounts her life details her life leading to her decision to keep her seat on the bus.

But the best and certainly a more nearly contemporary analogy is with Rosa Parks ' refusal to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955, which sparked the modern civil rights movement.

** In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks ( the " mother of the Civil Rights Movement ") refused to give up her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger.

" On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

She was the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the better known Rosa Parks incident by nine months.

She was returning from school on March 2, 1955 when she got on a Capital Heights bus downtown ( at the same place Parks boarded another bus nine months later ).

Seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955.

The National City Lines bus, No. 2857, on which Rosa Parks was riding before she was arrested ( a GM " old-look " transit bus, serial number 1132 ), is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.

Others had taken similar steps in the twentieth century, including Irene Morgan in 1946, Sarah Louise Keys in 1955, and Claudette Colvin nine months before Parks.

The route provides access through the extraordinarly rugged and scenic terrain of the North Coast and into vast groves of protected Redwoods in area parks, including Redwood National and State Parks before reaching the Oregon border.

Parks originally studied the clarinet, but had moved to the piano before enrolling ( majoring in music ) at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he studied from 1960 to 1963.

— a long time before there were National Parks and National Nature Reserves.

Around 1970, before construction of the Parks Highway, Willow had a population of 78 until land disposals, homestead subdivisions, and completion of the George Parks Highway in 1972 fueled growth in the area.

Each October, Emmaus also hosts an annual Halloween parade, one of the largest in eastern Pennsylvania, combined with a 5K Race, held just before the parade's start and is a major fundraiser for the Parade Committee and the Parks and Recreation Commission.

When mining declined in the area the station was sold and used as a private home before being absorbed by the Wyoming State Parks and restored.

In 1908, Parks worked for the United States Land Office in Denver as a mineral examiner for two months before taking a similar position in Alaska.

In 1951 Larry Parks was summoned to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, under threat of being blacklisted in the movie industry, but he begged not to be forced to testify.

In November 1955, just three weeks before Parks ' defiance of Jim Crow laws in Montgomery, the Interstate Commerce Commission, in response to a complaint filed by WAC Sarah Keys, closed the legal loophole left by the Morgan ruling in a landmark case known as Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.

Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her.

Some action against segregation had been in the works for some time before Parks ' arrest, under the leadership of E. D.

It was the last time Parks performed this song live before his death the following year.

New Zealand had already slumped to 28-4 when Snow was brought on, but he got two wickets before lunch, the New Zealand captain John Reid caught behind by Parks and the wicket-keeper Artie Dick clean bowled.

Reportedly, a brochure from the IAAPA, the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions, even states that Disney " spent a great deal of time studying Pieck's work at Eftling before beginning his own parks.

Premier Parks also added water parks to Darien Lake, Lake Compounce ( right before selling it ), Elitch Gardens, and Great Escape in 1995 and 1996.

Alberts offered to work for free on the Peace Parks in Bosnia and Herzegovina but was only able to create sketches before his death.

Around 1935, Postmaster Farley removed sheets of the National Parks set from stock before they had been gummed or perforated, giving these and unfinished examples of ten other issues to President Roosevelt and Interior Secretary Harold Ickes ( also a philatelist ) as curiosities for their collections.

It stood empty for more than 20 years after the establishment of the Park before being torn down by the National Parks Service.

Wells refused to give up her seat, 71 years before the activist Rosa Parks showed similar resistance on a bus.

He was Chairman of the National Parks Authority, which he ran before he was nominated by the then prime minister as Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda.