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

Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.

Erica Thedford is Rosa Parks’ great niece; her grandfather is Parks’ brother. “I didn’t know who she was to everybody else, she was just Auntie Rosa to us,” said Thedford. It wasn’t ...

Rosa Parks, left, and Martin Luther King Jr ... she and her husband went to Detroit to live with Parks' brother. Parks found work as a seamstress and continued to fight for civil rights and ...