Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955.

Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you probably didn't know. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

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. Parks was a lifelong activist.

The bus Rosa Parks made history on is at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn Michigan. ... she was then arrested for violating a law that segregated public buses.

The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955.

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

The bus Rosa Parks made history on is at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn Michigan. ... she was then arrested for violating a law that segregated public buses.