her actions on that montgomery, alabama, bus in 1955 made her a central figure in the civil rights movementoman who was an unsung hero in this historic time. >> reporter: claw.net colvin was just 15 when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in montgomery, alabama. it was nine months before rosa parks' active defiance in 1955. >> the bus driver yelled back to you. >> she said yeah give me those seats. so three of those girls got up and moved but i remained seated. >> reporter: colvin says she drew her strength from african american abolitionists she learned about in school. >> it felt like harriet tubman was pushing me down on one shoulder and sojourner truth was pushing me down on the other. they put me in a patrol car. >> reporter: it caught the attention of community activists looking for a case to challenge segregation laws in court. rosa parks was the secretary of a local civil rights association and took colvin under her wings. >> she thought i was this overgrown teenager that sassed white people. >> reporter: and what did she realize once she met you? >> she realized th

extended the next tornado watch box towards the east and the northeast, that would include the montgomery, alabama, metropolitan area. this is close enough. the good news is that we're seeing the back edge start to lose its punch. it's just a couple thunderstorm cells that are moving toward montgomery. we're not through with this just yet. >> okay, tom. thank you very much. we have new video of the tornado hitting hattiesburg. we'll be coming back to tom as well as we get those maps sorted out. this is new video. i want to let you hear the storm as it's obviously quickly approaching here. >> this is hattiesburg, mississippi. my name is ronald grant. check this out. it's happening rights outside my hotel. look at that. look at all that damage, dude. oh, snap. oh! >> holy -- yeah! oh, my god. i've never seen a tornado before in my life. >> you are watching some new video in to us from hattiesburg, mississippi, as well as new pictures here from some of the downed power lines. i do want to tell you since we have been talking about the university of southern miss because it suffered some significant da

speaking in march 1965 in montgomery, alabama.med record...from montgomery to memphis." it was largely made from original newsreel footage. the film was played at a one- time only event in 600 theaters on march 24, 1970. two years after dr. king's assassination in memphis, tennessee. the film has rarely been seen since, but it has just released on dvd. it was produced by ely landau. that does it for our broadcast. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. "democracy now![captioning madey democracy now!]

waiting to be arrested. >> reporter: montgomery, alabama, 1955.a segregated bus, parks took a stand, determined that she would remain seated, refusing the driver's order to make way for a white customer. her cause helped change the course of a long civil rights struggle. a legacy richly documented and carried on by a friend who was there. >> i admired this woman. i loved her. because she gave me a way out. >> reporter: congressman john lewis says parks, who died in 2005, had not sought attention, but came to accept that she was a symbol that inspired. >> without rosa parks, there wouldn't have been martin luther king jr. and maybe without rosa parks and martin luther king jr., there would be no barack obama. >> reporter: for sculptor eugene daub, knowing rosa parks came through hundreds of photos. >> she seemed to me a very -- not shy, but modest. a very modest woman. and i wanted that -- that to come through. her modesty. >> reporter: daub worked from clay to fashion a likeness that was ultimately cast in bronze. >> we wanted to come up with some

she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in montgomery, alabama. an act of resistance that launch the modern-day civil rights movement. today, we spend the hour looking at her life. >> we have one of the most famous americans of the 20th- century treated like a children's book hero, not seen as being worthy of a substantive, scholarly treatment. that is what surprised me and continues to surprise me, the ways that we diminish her legacy by making it about a single day, a single act, as opposed to the rich and lifelong history of resistance that was actually who rosa parks was. >> we speak with historian jeanne theoharis, her new book, "the rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks." all that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the obama administration has granted itself the right to launch a pre-emptive strike on foreign targets. cyber attacks would be carried out, should the what has been the necessary, to prevent an imminent and dangerous attack from abroad. the authorization was part

a black woman in montgomery, alabama, refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. but many of mrs. parks' admirers believe her true nature has not been fully recognized since her death. for one thing, too little account is taken, they think, of her strong involvement in the african methodist episcopal church. that involvement, says author of a new parks biography, jeanne theoharis, was matched with a deep faith that called her to action. >> it is a faith that requires people to act in the world. and that december day she makes this incredible stand. >> the driver demanded the seats that we were occupyin the other passengers there reluctantly gave up their seats. but i refused to do so. and there is no way to understand how she makes that stand, how she keeps going, without understanding at the core of her activism is her faith. >> reporter: mrs. parks' trial, for disorderly conduct and violating a local segregation ordinance, sparked the epoch-making montgomery bus boycott, led most notably by a then little-known dr. martin luther king jr., but also by other local

rosa parks was ordered by a bus driver to give up her seat to a white passenger in montgomery, alabama, she famously refused. president obama at the ceremony praised parks' act. >> like the passengers on the bus, we see the way things are, children hungry in a land of plenty. entire neighborhoods ravaged by violence. families hobbled by job loss or illness. rosa parks tells us there's always something that we can do. >> that statue of parks is the first of any african-american woman to go on display at the capitol. >>> new jersey governor chris christie is not taking his snub next month as a sign of waning support. christie seemed unconcerned about his standing with cpac leaders. >> i didn't know that i hadn't been invited to cpac until two days ago when i saw it in the news. so, yeah, pa apparently, i haven't been invited. i wish them the best. they don't want to invite me, it's their call. it's their organization and it's their business. it's not like i'm lacking for invitations to speak here and there. i can't sweat the small stuff. i have a state to rebuild. >> despite that exclusi

mourners lined up in three cities to pay their respects in montgomery, alabama. at the u.s.itol, where she was the first woman and only second african american to lie in honor. and in her adopted hometown of detroit, where her funeral ran for more than seven hours. everyone agreed that the 92- year-old parks had made history when she refused to give up her seat on a montgomery, alabama city bus in 1955. her arrest sparked a 382-day bus boycott that caught the attention of a movement and a nation. but there was more to rosa parks' action that day, which was neither as random or as isolated as it came to be seen. now, on the 100th anniversary of her birth, a new biography explores "the rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks". the author is jeane theoharis, a professor of political science at brooklyn college of the city university of new york. the word "rebellion" doesn't usually appear in what we think about rosa parks. >> right. and that's her word. she talks about having a life history of being rebellious, which is where the title comes from. and i think it gets at both the sco

police in montgomery, alabama, arrested parks in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a>>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," we'll go to midland city, alabama, for the latest on the end of that hostage standoff involving a young boy. >>> plus, the battle over spending cuts scheduled to kick in on march 1. we'll hear from house majority leader eric cantor. >>> and new developments in the investigation into the superdome blackout during the super bowl. >>> that's the "cbs morning news" for this tuesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm anne-marie green. great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com it's tuesday, february 5th. i'm elizabeth wenger. michelle has the morning >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning, it's tuesday, february 5. i'm frank mallicoat. michelle is sleeping right now. [ laughter ] >> that's right. she has the day off. i'm elizabeth wenger. >> i think she will for the next week although i think she is going to make an appearance tom

reporter: claudette colvin was just 15 when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in montgomery, alabamaine months before rosa parks' act of defiance in 1955. the bus driver yelled back to you. >> she said, y'alls give me those seats. so three of the girls got up and moved but i remained seated. >> reporter: colvin says she drew her strength from african- american abolitionists she had learned about in school. >> it felt like harriet tubman was pushing me down on one shoulder and sojourner truth was pushing me down with the other. they put me in a patrol car. >> reporter: colvin's arrest and conviction caught the attention of community activists looking for a case to challenge segregation laws in court. rosa parks was the secretary of a local civil rights organization and took colvin under her wing. >> she thought i was this overblown teenager that sassed white people. >> reporter: what did she realize once she met you? >> she realized that i was intellectually mature enough to know right from wrong. >> reporter: but ultimately, parks, a seamstress with a spotless reputation, was chosen

school teacher grew up in montgomery, alabama. in 1955, her cousin was president of the naacp. >> he was called to get her out of jail. >> sure as arrested for giving -- refusing to -- she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. for over a year blacks boycotted the city buses. a car pulled, walked to their jobs. they had had enough -- they carpools, walked to their jobs. they had had enough. the white woman she worked for picked her up. >> she would get my mother and take my mother to work. >> that early experience turned her into a civil rights activist who admired rosa parks. >> she was a neat woman. >> she does not know if all of the hoopla, whether she will be able to come down here tomorrow. but she will come down here eventually. >> thank you for that. abc 7 news at 6:00 begins right now. >> live and in hd, this is abc 7 news at 6, on your side. >> good evening. we begin on storm watch. heavy rains moving through our region created a messy commute home. >> we can expect some as we head into the eve

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so did thousands of alabama, montgomery commuters. they began a boycott. laborers, clergy and domestics. through rain and cold and sweltering heat, day after day, week after week, month after month, walking miles if they had to. arranging car pools where they could. not thinking about the blisters on their feet, the weariness after a full day of work, walking for respect. walking for freedom. driven by a solemn determination to affirm their god given dignity. 385 days after rosa parks refused to give up her seat the boycott ended. black men and women and children reboarded the buses of montgomery, newly desegregated, and sat in whatever seat happened to be opened. and when that victory, the entire edifice of segregation, like the ancient walls of jericho, began to slowly come tumbling down. it's been often remarked that rosa parks' activism didn't begin on that bus. long before she made headlines she had stood up for freedom, stood up for equality, fighting for voting rights, rallying against discrimination in the criminal justice system, serving in the lo

she is most remembered for her bus arrest in montgomery, alabama. her involvement was far more extensive. this is about an hour and five minutes. >> good evening. on behalf of the chancellor and faculty, i welcome you to our campus. how are we culture he? on rosa parks 101st day, her birthday, the author explores the question of rosa parks. what was behind that? those that know her. .. what is the price paid for having done something? dr. jeanne theoharis answers some of those questions and she writes it in her new book "the rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks". jeanne theoharis was born in staten island six weeks ago and her family moved to milwaukee, wisconsin, where she was raised. she held the first chair in woman's studies and as professor of science at boca raton college, she is also co-founder of educators for civil liberty. she is the author of numerous books on the civil-rights movement and the politics of race in the united states including as co-author of schools suck:students talk back to the segregated nation and its failures of segregat

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so did thousands of montgomery, alabama commuters. they began a boycott.s and laborers, clergy and domestics through rain and cold, and sweltering heat, day after day, week after week, month after month, walking miles if they had to, arranging car pools where they could, not thinking about the blisters on their feet, the weariness after a full day of work, walking for respect. walking for freedom. driven by a solemn determination to affirm their god-given dignity. 385 days after rosa parks refused to give up her seat the boycott ended. black men, and women and children reboarded the buses of montgomery. newly desegregated, and sat in whatever seat happened it be open. [applause] and with that victory, the entire edifice of segregation like the ancient walls of jericho, began to slowly come tumbling down. it's been often remarked that rosa parks activism didn't begin on that bus. long before she made headlines she had stood up for freedom, stood up for equality, fighting for voting rights, rallying against discrimination in the criminal justice system, serv

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parks is often only remembered for her bus to rest in montgomery, alabama but her involvement in the movement was far more extensive. this is about an hour five. >> good evening. my name is georgette norman at the georgia parks museum. on behalf of the chancellor, faculty, body, and welcome her to our campus. when i ask you a question, how are you politicized? how are you acculturated? i want you to think about that. as they honor rosa parks a hundred earth day, we have the honor of having with us dr. jeanne theoharis, who asked the question of rosa parks. what was behind that? that no heard round the world. consider two letters that open the floodgates of mother's day vergence dreams into that one vast ocean. at the time risk in terms of gender, class and race. the question is, what it behind that kind of courage? one makes one take those stands and more importantly, what is the price paid for having done so? .your jeanne theoharis and to some of those questions and she writes it in her new book, "the rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks" "the rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks" was b

another one way down here in parts of atlanta, georgia, montgomery, alabama getting heavy rain there. these are converging off the jersey coast and creating a powerful storm. right now, steam team 4 radar showing scattered flurries in gray. prince, fairfax, loudoun and west virginia, a lot of them drying up before they hit the ground. you will see a lot of them come together in the north. all of these areas in the blue and lavender, that's snow. heavy snows in new york, providence, boston. just rain, areas in green, rain tomorrow. but it may begin as a brief period of snow and sleet perhaps around midnight. that will mainly be in the shenandoah valley, out of the mountains. and it will melt on roads. then by friday, by 5:00 p.m., the rain will be ending, then we'll have the wind shifting into the northwest as that storm deepens off the jersey coast into new england. we may get snow showers here friday night. this area in the lavender and white. that's a potential zone of snow here. accumulating snow in northwestern maryland. midnight to saturday morning, one to two to three inches the

parks is widely known for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger in montgomery, alabama5. she would have turned 100 years old today. >>> still ahead on fox 5 morning news, much welcome work is about to get under way at a busy metro stop. >> we are checking back in with tucker barnes for your workweek forecast. we'll be back. >>> nobody can be against you. no matter what you go through this life inform you keep your faith in him. every time i saw this moment, i try to let my teammates know what this moment would feel like and last night when i had the conversation with them, i just came directly from my heart to tell them what this feeling would feel like and what god had showed me. >> ray lewis' shout out to god this morning. very happy indeed. >> yes. and as well as baltimore ravens fans. dave ross will be up there in baltimore for us later on this morning. we'll check in with him later on. let's take a live look at washington d.c. there. >> s later this afternoon only in the mid-30s. we are in the 20s right now. again, coal temperatures and yet, let's go to our headlin

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civil rights movement in the 50s when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in montgomery, alabamahat's a salute for a true hero. beautiful to see. i like it. 5:26. we'll bring new details after two police officers are killed in the line of duty. we have live team coverage coming up. >> and the pope making his final public appearance before leaving office. we will go live to vatican city for the latest on the search for a new pope. >> right now a live look outside over san jose. you can see the lights in the distance. christina loren says to get ready. it will be another spectacular day there. it's 5:27. >>> a community in mourning. the memorial for two santa cruz officers growing this morning. officers visibly shaken as this mark it is first time that small city had to deal with an officer killed in the line of duty. very good morning to one and all. i'm jon kelley. >> i'm marla tellez. pope benedict xvi making his final appearance before he steps down. >> this is video of him arriving this morning in the famous pope mobile. tomorrow will be his last day before he retires. >> mary

so did thousands of montgomery, alabama, commuters. they began a boycott.laborers, clergy and domestics, through rain and cold and sweltering heat, day after day, week after week, month after month, walking miles if they had to, arranging car pools where they could, not thinking about the blisters on their feet, the weariness after a full day of work, walking for respect, walking for freedom. driven by a solemn determination to faaffirm their god-given dignity. 385 days after rosa parks refused to give up her seat, the boycott ended. black men and women and children reboarded the buses of montgomery, newly desegregated, and sat in whatever asset hapse happened to be open. and with that victory, the entire edifice of segregation like the ancient walls of jerricho began to slowly come tumbling down. it's been often remarked that rosa parks' activism didn't begin on that bus. long before she made headlines, she had stood up for freedom, stood up for equality, fighting for voting rights, rallying against discrimination in the criminal justice system, serving in

"andrea mitchell reports," more than half a century after refusing to give up her seat on a montgomery, alabama bus, the civil rights pioneer, rosa parks makes history again becoming the first african-american woman to have a statue in the capital. >> rosa parks singular act of disobedience launched a movement. the tired feet of those who walked the roads of montgomery helped a nation see that to which it had once been blind. >> at the same time, across the way at the supreme court, conservative justices signal the landmark 1965 voting rights act may have outlived its time. veterans say it's still critical. >> there's still forces in this country that want to take us back to another period. we are not going back. we have come too far. we made too much progress to go back. >>> in rome today, a farewell message from the pope as 150,000 people packed st. peter's square to witness history before pope benedict steps down tomorrow. >>> tackling gun violence. the father of a sandy hook victim. >> it's hard to be here to talk about my son, but i have to. i'm his voice. i'm not here for the sympathy and

while it dumps snow in the north, it will pour heavy rain over new orleans and montgomery, alabama. and it could kick up tornadoes along the gulf coast as well. let's get right to jennifer delgado. she's in the weather senter in atlanta monitoring all of this for us. good morning. >> good morning, guys. you can see on the radar we have a lot of action out there. we have thunderstorms out there. you can see the lightning. line of storms developing through parts of texas as well as snow. we saw the live shot. the snow coming down even more on the way as well as that wintry mix affecting areas along interstate 44. so let's break this down for you. what can we expect today? a big mess out there if you're going to be traveling. as we go throughout the morning now, what you're going to see is the snow intensifying. as we move to the north through areas like celina, we're seeing the snow really starting to pick up. some of these locations, we're talking 12 to 18 inches of snowfall in some parts, even an eastern kansas they're going to see a lot of snow. and then this is going to be the rea

the president mentioned in montgomery, alabama, actually in atlanta, back when i was in high school,t to meet her. got her autograph, rosa parks, incredible. >>> now this here. this will give you the creeps. was it fantasy or did a new york police officer really intend to kidnap, to cook and eat women, including his own wife? gilberto valle is on trial now accused of doing precisely that. prosecutors have an fbi agent read aloud evidence of e-mails and chats between officer valle and a buddy of his making their case that valle considered and conspired with people online to kidnap a woman. the agent said that he directed his buddy to a video of a female friend, clad in a bikini saying, quote, i'd like to have her arm on a barbecue. and, quote, i'm dying to taste some girl meat. white girls seem the most appetizing to me. this man allegedly said. his wife ratted him out to the fbi. she was actually the first person to testify against him this week. deborah feyerick, she's been in the courtroom today. deborah, just hearing that makes my skin crawl. what's the latest on this one? >> well

other than that the concern really i think is going to shift to areas of southern alabama south of montgomery. doesn't mean montgomery you may not be in this because you're on the northern edge, but if we can hang in there another 20 minutes the threat will leave mississippi and it will be with alabama for a while. some of the thunderstorm cells, we're losing the heat of the day, the sun is going down, they will have to rain themselves out. we may not have as many tornado as we would have a few hours ago, but we have one i'm a little concerned about and it's moving if we can see it here, just on the last edge of your screen here as it makes its way into the south. some of these thunderstorms again south of montgomery are starting to fire up here as well. so we're going to have to wait a couple hours for that. again, the watches may be extended to include, of course, eastern areas of southern alabama into areas of southwestern georgia. but, again, this is at least good news we'll see possibly the threat come to an end because the tail end of this band of thunderstorms seems to be losing any of

she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in montgomery, alabama.er move to michigan where she died in 2005. >>> wow, this viral video by a 1st grader from modern day school in bethesda very popular. last week the school made a deal with the kids if anyone made a foul shot, the entire school would get the day off. the 1st grader was the last student to try and he got nothing but net. >> oh, wow, what a hero. >> the varsity high school team is already going all right, we got tabs on that guy. >>> none of these kids have had much in the delay of snow days, a couple two hour delays, so they've got to be grateful for. this i don't think there will be delays tomorrow in most areas. >> i hear them all going darn. >> maybe washington county where they had some measurable snow tonight. this thing kind of fizzled out and dried up, a lot of dry air in place. i don't think it's going to do much here. >> yea! >> how would you feel about a warming trend? >> bring it on. >> i'm making shawn happy tonight. here we go with february and another clipper passing throu

mother of the civil rights movement who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in montgomery, alabamaamong other giants of american history. tomorrow a statue of parks will be unveiled in the original house of representatives known as statutory hall. it will sit near the statue of dr. martin luther king and others. it's an honor. i applaud both republicans and democrats for it. but at the same hour tomorrow just across the street at the supreme court, the voting rights act faces its greatest challenge. th this challenges everything they stood for. in the last year voter i.d. laws have been pushed all over the country in 37 states. we've seen billboards in minority communities that threaten and scare away voters. we've seen blocking of voter registration drives. scaling back on early voting and massive lines. and we've herd desiline's story the voter who stood in lines for hours to cast her ballot. so let's remember what we're honoring. we cannot go back now. we've made too much progress to turn back the clocks. tomorrow as we honor one that stood up, let's stand up and hold up what sh

almost 60 years after rosa parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in montgomery, alabamae president and congressional leaders from both parties unveiled a statue in honor of the late civil rights pioneer. >> rosa parks' singular act of disobedience launched a movement. the tired feet of those who walked the dusty roads of montgomery helped a nation see that to which it had once been blind. it is because of these men and women that i stand here today. >> and now for the ironic coder to that move b ceremony. because at the very moment as those elected leaders were celebrating the legacy of rosa parks, just across the street the supreme court was hearing oral arguments that are aimed at undoing the very revolution that miss parks helped to start. the issue before the court is the 1965 voting rights act. legislation that was born on one of those brutal days in american history when demonstrators were savagely beaten by police in alabama. the nation's outrage went all the way to the top. within days president lyndon johnson responded proposing a new law to remove the barriers

she argues she is often only remembered for her bus arrest in montgomery, alabama, but her involvement in the civil rights movement was far more extensive. this is about an hour, five. >> good evening. my name is georgette norman, director of troy university rosa parks' museum. on behalf of the chancellor, the faculty, student body, i welcome you to our campus. i want to ask you a question. very glad you're here. how are you politicized? how are you acculture ated? want you to think about that. as we honor rosa parks' 100% birthday, we have -- 100th birthday, we have the honor of having with us to start this whole celebration off dr. jeannie theoharis who asked that question of rosa parks. what was behind that no? that no heard round the world? those little two letters that opened the floodgates of all those divergent streams into that one vast ocean. at the time that no carried with it great risk. risk in terms of gender, class and race. the question is, what is behind that kind of courage? what makes one take those kinds of stands? and more importantly, what is the price paid for hav

in 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger in segregated montgomery, alabamar arrest spurred a bus boycott that stretched over a year. a bronze statue of parks was unveiled in the u.s. capitol's statuary hall today-- a short distance from the rotunda where she became the first woman, and only second african american, to lie in repose after she died in 2005. she was honored by among others, president obama, congressman james clyburn and house speaker john boehner in today's ceremony. >> rosa parks, the first lady of civil rights, the mother of the movement, the saint of an endless struggle. however one wished to refer to her, this statue forever ordains rosa parks' status as an icon of our nation's struggles to live out its declaration that we are all created equal. this statue speaks for itself and today we speak for a nation committed to remembering more importantly, emulating rosa parks. so we place here here in the chamber where many fought to prevent a day like this and right in the gaze of jefferson davis, the president of the confederacy. >> she lived a

civil rights movement who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in montgomery, alabama, in 1955 will get her spot among other giants of american history. tomorrow a statue of parks will be unveiled in the original house of representatives known as statutory hall. it will sit near the statue of dr. martin luther king and others. it's an honor. i applaud both republicans and democrats for it. but at the same hour tomorrow just across the street at the supreme court, the voting rights act faces its greatest challenge. th this challenges everything they stood for. in the last year voter i.d. laws have been pushed all over the country in 37 states. we've seen billboards in minority communities that threaten and scare away voters. we've seen blocking of voter registration drives. scaling back on early voting and massive lines. and we've herd desiline's story the voter who stood in lines for hours to cast her ballot. so let's remember what we're honoring. we cannot go back now. we've made too much progress to turn back the clocks. tomorrow as we honor one that stood up, let's stan

so did thousands of montgomery, alabama, commuters. they began a boycott. teachers, laborers, clergy and domestics through rain and cold and sweltering heat, day after day, week after week, month after month, walking miles if they had to, arranging carpools if they could, not thinking about the blisters on their feet, the wearyness after a full day of work, walking for respect, walking for freedom, driven by a solemn determination to affirm their god-given dignity. 385 days after rosa parks refused to give up her seat, the boycott ended. black men and women and children reboarded the buses of montgomery newcalsly desegregated and sat in whatever seat happened to be open. [applause] and with that victory, the entire edifice of segregation, like the ancient walls of jericho, began slowly to come tumbling down. it's been often remarked had a rosa parks' activism -- remarked that rosa parks' activism didn't begin on that bus. along before she made headlines she stood up for freedom, stood up for equality, fighting for voting rights, rallying against discriminat