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 ...

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

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.