It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America's Civil Rights Movement. On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to ...

Visitors to the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University can learn about her decades of activism before and after that fateful day in 1955.

What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...

Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began ...

Seventy years after Rosa Parks’ iconic bus protest, historians highlight Sarah Keys’ earlier legal victory against ...

SHREVEPORT, La. — Seventy years ago today, Rosa Parks sat on a Montgomery bus in protest of segregation, sparking a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. On Friday, the MLK Neighborhood ...

In February 1957, the Alabama Court of Appeals upheld her 1955 bus arrest conviction for violating segregation rules that ...

She took a stand by sitting down in a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL on Dec. 1, 1955. She was arrested and jailed but ...