Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913?

Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting home from her job as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store on Dec. 1, 1955, when she boarded a Montgomery city bus. She paid her fare and made her ...

There's a new effort to create a federal holiday in honor of Rosa Parks. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell held a news conference ...

and that's what Rosa Parks did. On Transit Equity Day on Tuesday, the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority is honoring her pivotal act of defiance that ignited the Montgomery bus boycott by ...

“In a courageous act of protest 70 years ago, Rosa Parks made a choice that changed ... Parks is most famously known for sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott after she refused to give up her ...

BRITE Bus is marking the birthday of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, Transit Equity Day ... event in what became known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. civil rights ...

Later that year, the group made an ... the Rosa Parks Museum opened on Dec. 1, 2000, with the mission of interpreting the story and legacy of Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott for future ...

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks ... 1955, Parks famously refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott that ultimately ...

Transit Authority of River City is participating in Black History Month this February by recognizing a famous civil rights ...

At about the same time, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested, sparking a protest campaign that would go down in history as the Montgomery bus boycott — another key moment in ...