Rosa Parks is often called the “mother of the civil rights movement.” When she was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, activists organized a city-wide bus boycott. It was the beginning of a long struggle which changed segregation laws forever. Rosa Parks and her husband, […]
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Germ U short courses feature learning experiences that will educate and empower you on even the busiest of days. Each segment is under ten minutes but worth a lifetime of thought. This short feature from History.com teaches us a few things about Rosa Parks’ history that we didn’t know, and we bet you didn’t […]
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A simple line drawn roughly halfway down a bus was a visual reminder of the segregation on public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. African American passengers were allowed at the front of the bus to pay their fare, and nothing more. After this, they were required to only use the back door. In early […]
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