Who inspired the Montgomery bus boycott after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man?
Her arrest and detention after Mexican authorities said they found 12 pounds of marijuana under her bus seat illustrates just one of the perils Americans face while traveling south of the border.
The event took place five years before Rosa Parks energized the civil rights movement on Dec. 1, 1955, when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala.
While 1950s U.S. civil rights protester Rosa Parks made history for her refusal to give up her bus seat, and Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi famously endured house arrest throughout the 1990s, the name "Emily Davison" has failed to gain such international recognition.
In an interview years later, they asked Rosa Parks if she kept her seat on the bus because she was tired.
On 1 December 1955, Mrs Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama to a white man, defying the law.
Every child will have a seat belt, each child will have a designated seat and the bus will only be carrying pupils back and forth from school, with no other passengers or routes.
The top of the bus over the driver's seat was caved in, and part of the roof was ripped open.
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In December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested and convicted of disorderly conduct for refusing to leave her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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But evidence of a rollover seemed abundantly clear: The top of the bus over the driver's seat was caved in, and part of the roof was ripped open.
On December 1, 1955, our Nation was forever transformed when an African-American seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger.
But think about how much time you spent immobile: in a car or cab, in an airplane seat, on a bus or shuttle, in a meeting room or at a restaurant, watching TV in your hotel room.
One hundred years after she was born and 58 years after she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama city bus, Rosa Parks has a permanent place in the halls of Congress.
But Dad was definitely taking up more than his fair share of seat space on that already cramped bus.
Parks, 87, was thrust into the national spotlight in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
And yet our minds fasten on that single moment on the bus -- Ms. Parks alone in that seat, clutching her purse, staring out a window, waiting to be arrested.
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Alonzo Pena, who retired as deputy director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in 2010 and was once stationed in Mexico, said someone else on the bus probably put the drugs under Maldonado's seat without her knowledge and watched her throughout the trip.
Passenger Briony Daniels was sitting at the back of the bus and saw Mrs McCracken thrown forward out of her seat.
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Fifty-eight years after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks became the first African-American woman to be honored with a full length statue in National Statuary Hall.
There would emerge an odd similarity between taking a seat in your hands-off car and boarding a bus or train.
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The man was taking the bus through Radcliffe-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire when he fell off a seat on 30 January.
He took his Senate seat in 1990 after a dramatic victory secured by driving tirelessly around the state in a bus.
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The next time you are on a subway or bus and are standing up holding onto a pole or railing lamenting the fact another person just got your seat, you may want to consider that standing up may actually be healthier for you, and could potentially increase your lifespan.
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