Montgomery and Huntsville will honor the anniversary of bus boycott with museum tours and free bus rides on Rosa Parks Day. The Alabama cities of Montgomery and Huntsville are preparing to honor the ...

The story of Rosa Parks has long been misrepresented and sanitized. Now it's also under threat of erasure. We correct the ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful conclusion a ...

The 15-year-old northern New Castle County desegregation order would be dissolved under a tentative settlement announced yesterday by state and city officials and the Coalition to Save Our Children.

In the segregated South, African Americans were denied equality in the workplace, a chance for a decent education and the right to visit restaurants and use restrooms that white people also used. In ...

Eight years after Parks' death, on February 27, 2013, her statue was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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 ...

There’s a seat reserved for Rosa Parks on every Metrobus and Metrorail train today. February 4 is the birthday of the civil rights legend, who died in 2005. WMATA has previously dedicated seats to ...