Remember Rosa Parks? She took a stand to bring attention to racism and discrimination against black Americans by sitting at ...

Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...

Rosa Parks wrote those words just a short time after her famous refusal, 60 years ago this month, to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, a protest that galvanized a yearlong bus ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger Today we celebrate the life of Rosa Parks. The late ...

Smith, now 94, was reminiscing back to that day 60 years ago when she witnessed Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. “Back then, they would beat ...

5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous ...

This week, we’ll discuss civil rights activist Rosa ... after Parks attended a meeting about Till’s murder, as well as the murders of two black activists, she was taking the bus home from ...

Rosa Louise ... segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala. The 381-day city bus boycott that followed launched similar nonviolent protests and demonstrations throughout the United States. Parks stood ...

She worked as a teacher when she was a young ... after Rosa Parks’ protest, the courts in Alabama decided that anybody - black or white - should be allowed to sit anywhere on a bus.

Families, students, pensioners, young and old rising up for what ... guilty of breaking the segregation laws. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott Scroll through the images below to learn ...