Next to articles describing the arrest of Rosa Parks, he wrote “#2857" and “Blake/#2857.” James Blake was the bus driver who had Rosa Parks arrested. The son and wife of Mr. Cummings ...

Economic boycotts have long been a tool of resistance. At the turn of the 19th century, the English boycotted sugar produced by enslaved people, dropping demand and opening the market for Indian sugar ...

4. Rosa Parks had a previous run-in with bus driver James F. Blake. In 1943, Parks got onto a bus James F. Blake was driving and paid her fare at the front. As she began walking down the aisle of ...

The bus driver wanted Rosa to give her seat to a ... we will go farther from now to greater things. Thank you!" Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as an ordinary woman who took a stand to help ...

On Transit Equity Day, TheRide is honoring Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each bus with a sign commemorating her ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa ... bus system, a pivotal event in the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks took ...