Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

I n December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a social movement. Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, and died at th… ...

Rosa Parks honored with statue in Montgomery, Alabama 00:52. A new statue was dedicated to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks in Alabama's capital of Montgomery on Sunday.

The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

Equal Justice Initiative unveiled statue of Rosa Parks on Feb. 14, 2024, which can be seen in Montgomery's Legacy Plaza. Savannah Tryens-Fernandes ...

Equal Justice Initiative Memorializes Rosa Parks With New Monument At Montgomery’s Legacy Plaza. The seated statue of Rosa Parks is the first of three monuments at the Legacy Plaza honoring ...

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

Parks' arrest ignited a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, led by a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is often credited with giving rise to the modern civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks’ refusal on a Montgomery bus is the stuff of American legend. Yet “her life history of being rebellious,” as she put it, is much less known, as we have grown comfortable with a ...