Today In History: Don't Ride the Bus

A black seamstress would not budge on December 1, 1955. And all America shook.

History is taught as the record of presidents, kings and generals. But sometimes it is the extraordinary story of an "ordinary" person that history must tell. On December 1, 1955, one woman's act of defiance changed history. But it wouldn't be fair to call Rosa Parks , who as born in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama and died October 24, 2005 at age 92, an ordinary person. What do you know about this courageous woman who ...