Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...

Rosa Parks wasn’t born a household name, nor was she someone seeking fame. She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing ... and eventually the Supreme Court ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional. On Feb. 23, 1956, a New ...

Rosa Parks wrote those words just a short time ... Parks said that she found “not too much difference” between the segregation and discrimination in Detroit and what she’d left behind ...

Segregation happened on buses too ... and we will go farther from now to greater things. Thank you!" Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as an ordinary woman who took a stand to help black people ...

The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X led to the passing of civil rights acts and Supreme Court rulings to end segregation. These judgments ...