Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

If Rosa Parks were alive today, she would be 112 years old. She died 19 years ago, but CityLink in Peoria is making sure that ...

At the age of 92, Parks died on Oct. 24, 2005, in Detroit. On Feb. 4, 2013, what would have been her 100th birthday, The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, announced Rosa Parks National Day ...

There’s a seat reserved for Rosa Parks on every Metrobus and Metrorail train today. February 4 is the birthday of the civil ...

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday, a moment to honor her unwavering fight for civil rights. Often recognized as part of the ‘Holy Trinity’ of Black ...

After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of ...

Rosa Parks, born February 4, 1913, was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. When Parks died in 2005, she became the ...

Parks was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and was the first woman to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol rotunda when she died in 2005. Some states already observe Rosa Parks Day as ...

A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa Parks did. On Transit Equity Day ... during the 1967 Detroit uprising. The activist died in 2005 at the age of 92 in Detroit.