Rosa Parks is reclaiming her status as a bona fide American hero. The simple act of refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955 symbolically sparked the civil rights movement and ...

More than half a century ago, civil rights leaders Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for equality in Montgomery, inspiring a national movement through acts of nonviolence What Was on ...

It just doesn’t suit her. An itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie Rosa Parks-inspired bikini has ignited an internet riot. “Trying to capitalize off of a leading figure [of] the Civil Rights Movement ...

Get to know two variations from Margaret Bond's 'Montgomery Variations', inspired by Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott that became a catalyst in the American civil rights movement.

(Watch: How Parks inspired Clinton -- 7:25) "I was a 9-year-old Southern white boy who rode a segregated bus every single day of my life," Clinton said. "When Rosa showed us that black folks didn ...

A swimwear company is facing backlash over a Rosa Parks-inspired bikini. Swimwear brand Divino Seas released the "Rose" bikini set, which includes a strappy top and matching bottoms, dedicated to ...

Rosa Parks wrote those words just a short time after her famous refusal, 60 years ago this month, to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, a protest that galvanized a yearlong bus ...

This week, we’ll discuss civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in 1913 in a small city in Alabama, a state in America’s Deep South. The region has a long history of ...

About 50 volunteers painted the sidewalks to welcome people to the corner of Jefferson Street and Rosa L. Parks Boulevard.

IMAGE 9: Rosa Parks became an important figurehead of that movement…because her simple act of defiance inspired others to take a stand against unfairness as well. IMAGE 10: The world is a very ...