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

Rosa Parks helped spark the Civil Rights Movement in America, ... For more quizzes, clips and stories about black history, check out our Black History Month collection 2023 on CBBC.

Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of celebrated civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Host Melissa Harris-Perry kicked off Black History Month with an illuminating conversation about ...

On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks rides a Montgomery, Ala., bus after the city was forced to stop separating black and white riders. (Associated Press) Shortly after 5 p.m., on a cool Alabama evening 60 years ago ...

Y ou probably think you know the story of Rosa Parks, the seamstress who refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., 60 years ago—on Dec. 1, 1955—and thus galvanized the bus ...

On Feb. 27, 2013, a statue of Rosa Parks commissioned by Congress was unveiled in National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, close to what would have been her 100th birthday.

The Rosa Parks Collection of 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs are available to researchers at the Library of Congress on Feb. 4 and a portion will be open to the public on March 2.

Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind yoga that connect the body and the mind.

Rosa Parks is best remembered as the African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. It was 1955 in the segregated South and the start of the Montgomery bus boycott.

When Rosa Parks, a seamstress, refused to give up her seat for a white man on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., 61 years ago on Dec. 1, 1955, she became a part of history. Parks, who is sometimes ...