The story of Rosa Parks has long been misrepresented and sanitized. Now it's also under threat of erasure. We correct the ...

Rosa Parks and her impact on Alabama and Civil Rights history will be symbolized with a statue on the State Capitol grounds ...

Rosa Parks left a legacy of change the United States and the rest of the world.  She died in late October 2005 here in Detroit.

The monuments honoring the Alabama natives, whose advocacy helped dismantle racial segregation and promoted the rights of ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, a 42 year-old Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, ...

Eight years after Parks' death, on February 27, 2013, her statue was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Sixty-seven years ago, the crushing heel of racism had finally pushed down too far to bear for a 42-year-old Montgomery seamstress. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was tired of the hatred that her city had ...

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat 60 years ago today. — -- Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights ...

You know Rosa Parks as the civil rights icon who sparked the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama by refusing to give up her seat to a white man in 1955. You can picture her face, somber and ...

ATLANTA - Black History Month in Atlanta is off to an exciting start with a series of events celebrating what would be the 111th birthday of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks. On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks was ...

Statues of civil rights activist Rosa Parks and disability rights activist Helen Keller were unveiled at the Alabama State Capitol on Friday, making them the first Alabama women to be honored there.

Statues of Helen Keller and Rosa Parks were unveiled Friday morning on the Alabama Capitol grounds in Montgomery, making them ...