"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.

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.

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 ...

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.