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This is the anniversary of a day in american history that changed the whole course of this country. This is the day an obscure black woman in Montgomery Alabama refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Yeah, we're still under The 150

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Children gathered in Oakland's police administration building today to hear the story of how Rosa Parks arrest started a bus boycott that led to the Supreme Court decision striking down segregated transportation and launched the civil rights movement which brought Martin Luther King to worldwide prominence. The 4th

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through 6th graders from Crocker Highlands School talk with mrs Parks by long distance telephone in the Detroit office of congressman john Conyers, where she now works. They had a full hour of interesting questions. I'd like to know if during the boycott did any of the whites

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not ride the bus because they felt sorry for the blacks. Yes, there were a number of questions. After today's conversation with Rosa Parks, a bit of profound american history has been made real for at least one group of american schoolchildren, Ben Williams, eyewitness news from Oakland