Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil rights leader Rosa Parks taught and practiced yoga as part of her wellness routine. - Library of Congress If you look ...

It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America's Civil Rights Movement. On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to ...

ASHLAND, Ky. (WOWK) — Ashland is celebrating Rosa Parks, the mother of the Civil Rights Movement who took a stand by keeping her seat. 70 years ago, Rosa Parks stood against discrimination by refusing ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - People in Montgomery gathered to celebrate what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum. Nearly 70 years ago, the civil rights icon ...

Mrs. Parks said upon retiring from her job with Conyers that she wanted to devote more time to the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. The institute, incorporated in 1987, is ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Feb. 4 marks the 113th birthday of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks. Wednesday is also Rosa Parks Day, and public transportation services in D.C. and Maryland are ...

(CNN) — If you look closely, you can see a twinkle in her eye. The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic ...

DETROIT -- Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92. Mrs. Parks died at her home during the evening of ...

DETROIT — Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress ...