I didn’t buy this house to sell for a profit. I wanted to make this my home,” said Ethel R. Lawrence, who fended off ...

Instead, they wanted it to look like a seven-year-old city bus, just like it would have when Rosa Parks boarded in 1955. While the Henry Ford was willing to invest a lot of money into the project ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice of yoga, lying on her stomach and pulling her feet ...

Construction is slated to begin by early April on a $35 million project to offer affordable housing and social services for ...

Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon ... for our special programming, "Project Community: Unsung Heroes of Black History." On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks was on the front of a bus in ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story widely since Dec. 1, 1955, when she was arrested and jailed for ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...