On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for failing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Her protest that day eventually sparked a 13-month bus boycott, which culminated with the ...

Friday marks 62 years since Rosa Louise McCauley Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala., to a white man, becoming an iconic symbol in the Civil Rights Movement.

At a ceremony under the Capitol dome, in language as dignified as the act that put her at the forefront of the campaign for civil rights 50 years ago, Rosa Parks was recalled Sunday as the woman ...

Tuesday marks 60 years since Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest on December 1, 1955 sparked the 381-day Montgomery ...

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

A trolley passes the site where civil rights icon Rosa Parks was arrested December 1, 1955, for not giving up her bus seat to a white man October 28, 2005, in Montgomery, Alabama.

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

Sixty-eight years ago on this day, December 1 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested “for disobeying an Alabama law requiring Black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was ...

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.

Knoxville Area Transit will honor Rosa Parks on Sunday, Dec. 1, by keeping one seat open on every bus. The seat will feature a placard recognizing the contribution Parks made and how the small act ...

February 4 marks the birthday of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks, and 2025 would've been her 112th birthday. To celebrate, Metro ...

$5 movies: Deal celebrates Black excellence in film.Here's what you can see at AMC TARC saving a seat for Rosa Parks. According to the Transit Authority of River City (TARC), the only public ...