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 refusing ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

Removing Jackie Robinson’s military record puts Donald Trump in the same company with every white ballplayer who ever threw ...

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 ...

Jackie Robinson Day? It’s going, going, almost gone. Major League Baseball officials are scared of new governmental mandates ...

The Trump administration announced that two dozen federal properties in Michigan, including the Rosa Parks Federal Building, could be sold. The GSA claims that selling these properties could save ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National ...

The Montgomery Bus Station, which houses the historic Freedom ... of civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta and Rosa Parks in Detroit, according to The Associated Press.