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 ...

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

City Park Jazz, an annual series of free jazz concerts that turns Denver’s marquis green space into the biggest and best ...

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 ...

Also targeted for disposal is the Alabama bus station pivotal to the civil rights movement that now serves as the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery. The Rosa Parks building at 985 Michigan Ave.

Segregation is illegal in the US. But President Trump's administration is removing anything that benefits people of specific ...

N.B. Mills Elementary School students brought a diverse group of historical figures to life on Thursday. Fourth-graders, who ...

and one of their neighbors was Rosa Parks, who would become an iconic figure of the Montgomery bus boycott. After moving to New York in 1955 with her family, Dr. Dukes worked for President Lyndon B.

The act repeals a 60-year-old executive order signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson ... widespread outrage. Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man led ...

The Rosa Parks Federal Building was named for the activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery ... Designed by Alfred B. Mullett, best known for designing the San Francisco ...