Statues of civil rights activist Rosa Parks and disability rights activist Helen Keller are scheduled to be dedicated on the ...

Learn about civil rights activist Rosa Parks's early life, her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and her lasting ...

“Mrs. Parks, of course, was the force behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which was really the beginning of the most dramatic era of civil rights activism in Montgomery,” Stevenson said.

The Equal Justice Initiative has unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks in its recently built Legacy Plaza in Montgomery. At the Wednesday morning unveiling, EJI founder and Executive Director Bryan ...

More Rosa Parks Day Rally and Unity Walk Date: Friday, Dec. 1 Time: 5:30–6:30 p.m. Location: Steps of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 454 Dexter Ave., Montgomery ...

Parks' arrest ignited a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, led by a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is often credited with giving rise to the modern civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks Day is already celebrated in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 1, as well as in Ohio, Oregon, and Texas.

The Rosa Parks Day Act would designate Dec. 1 as a federal holiday marking Parks’ 1955 arrest in Montgomery, Alabama. She refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you probably didn't know.

The 2023 argument on a bus was compared to Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, the lawsuit ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was 42-year-old when she refused to give up her seat, jumpstarting the Montgomery Bus Boycott.