Rosa Parks and her impact on Alabama and Civil Rights history will be symbolized with a statue on the State Capitol grounds ...

Rosa Parks left a legacy of change the United States and the rest of the world.  She died in late October 2005 here in Detroit.

Dearborn — The Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation celebrated 45 years on Saturday of helping students attend college, in the ...

(AP) — Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller, pivotal figures who fought for ... Known as the mother of the Civil Rights ...

Sixty-seven years ago, the crushing heel of racism had finally pushed down too far to bear for a 42-year-old Montgomery seamstress. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was tired of the hatred that her city had ...

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat 60 years ago today. — -- Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights ...

This week Laketran, with the Lake County NAACP, is honoring the life and legacy of Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon who sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, by reserving a front seat on its ...

ATLANTA - Black History Month in Atlanta is off to an exciting start with a series of events celebrating what would be the 111th birthday of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks was ...

On the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest on a Montgomery bus, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell is leading an effort in Congress to make Dec. 1 a federal holiday. In a speech Friday, Sewell asked all ...

You know Rosa Parks as the civil rights icon who sparked the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama by refusing to give up her seat to a white man in 1955. You can picture her face, somber and ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, a 42 year-old Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, ...

More than a decade before Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, she was a sexual assault ...