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' 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.

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.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A 2-year-old was reportedly restrained during a Rosa Parks reenactment in a Florida classroom, according to WESH. Osceola County parents said their daughter, who is believed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.