"Rosa Parks' husband had a car and she took the bus just to be messy," one Threads user wrote. ... I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was 42.

A 2-year-old black girl was photographed being handcuffed by a white child pretending to be a cop as part of a Rosa Parks reenactment at a Florida daycare.

Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. ... Then, on March 2, 1955, 15-year-old ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson told Vanity Fair in 1988 that Parks said she was motivated in the moment by the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till on Aug. 28, 1955, several months before Parks' protest.

Parents of a 2-year-old in Osceola County say their daughter, who they believe is the only Black child in the class, was made to play Rosa Parks in a reenactment that included her being restrained.

Blackpink’s Lisa is facing backlash for her 2025 Met Gala outfit, which appeared to feature Rosa Parks' face on her underwear — weeks after an N-word scandal involving her resurfaced.

As Parks wrote in her autobiography, "Rosa Parks: My Story": I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have ...

But Rosa Parks' stand was the spark that lit the fire of a nation's civil rights movement. ... The 42-year-old seamstress paid dearly for her effrontery. She and her husband lost their jobs.

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955 ...

On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement.

When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery Bus, her act of resistance launched a movement. ... Old pipes, tight spaces: Why Atlanta water repairs took so long.

7-year-old student wanders off Fort Bend ISD school campus after a front office name mix-up . This isn't Rosa Parks Elementary's first time losing a student.