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 ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ...

who grew up in the tiny Alabama town of Union Springs. “Mama taught us to obey.” But on that Monday evening in December, Rosa Parks was in no mood to obey. The soft-spoken seamstress ...

Before Rosa Parks changed history by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Alabama bus, a righteous Black Army lieutenant was court martialed for taking the same stand in Texas.

When Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up ... A sit-in involving students at Alabama State University also took place at the courthouse café, located on the building’s first floor.

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the ... at age 42 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...

The Rosa Parks Committee raised $15,000 to bring her ... long and all the things she had to go through." After living in Alabama where she was born, Parks moved to Detroit in 1957.

The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Plaza in Montgomery Julia Binswanger William "W.R ...