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 ...

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956. She was among some 100 people charged with violating segregation laws. Parks, refusal to move to the back of a ...

Eight years after Parks’ death, on February 27, 2013, a statue of Parks was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. At the unveiling ceremony that day, President Obama said, “Today, Parks has ...

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.

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

Statues of Helen Keller and Rosa Parks were unveiled Friday morning on the Alabama Capitol grounds in Montgomery, making them ...

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, ...

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

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