Visitors to the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University can learn about her decades of activism before and after that fateful day in 1955.
On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The incident sparked a yearlong boycott of ...
Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913? She went to an industrial school for girls and continued on to what is now ...
If you look closely, you can see a twinkle in her eye. The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice of ...
The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn is celebrating the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955, an event that significantly influenced the civil rights movement. The museum houses the ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Montgomery County is the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement where, even behind bars, history has been made. The original mugshots of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., ...
Newly uncovered photos of the Civil Rights icon taken during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march have been release to the Rosa ...
A Laketran rider sitting next to the seat marked reserved in honor of Rosa Parks. Throughout the week of Feb. 3, 2025, the first seat on Laketran and Geauga Transit buses will be reserved for a ...