If you look closely, you can see a twinkle in her eye. The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice of ...

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.

DETROIT -- Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92. Mrs. Parks died at her home during the evening of ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

The Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation celebrated 45 years on Saturday of helping students attend college, in the spirit of social justice and community service that defined the legacy of the "mother ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - People in Montgomery gathered to celebrate what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum. Nearly 70 years ago, the civil rights icon ...

A mural by Made Fresh Crew of a monarch butterfly landing on civil rights hero Rosa Parks’ shoulder now adorns the entrance to Stevenson College at UC Santa Cruz. Parks was an American activist in the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Montgomery County is the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement where, even behind bars, history has been made. The original mugshots of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Transit Authority of River City will save a seat on every bus in its fleet in remembrance of Parks and her contribution to the civil rights movement. According to a news release Tuesday, each seat ...