Six decades ago, Rosa Parks, then 42, uttered perhaps the most famous “No” in American history and helped launch the modern civil rights movement — a struggle that many say continues today.

The bus driver who requested that Rosa Parks be arrested for not giving up her seat had repeatedly tried to run Lucille Times off the road months earlier. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

From Soledad O'Brien's SO'B Productions, the full-length documentary 'The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks' debuts on Peacock in 2022.

Mansfield B. Frazier: My Father’s Rosa Parks Moment My father stood up to a cop in our neighborhood in the 1950s—and taught me to be a man. By Mansfield Frazier.

This was Rosa Parks’s first conflict with that bus driver. If Rosa Parks had been paying attention, she never would have gotten on the bus driven by the tall, blonde, 43-year-old Blake.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery ...

In May 1951, William “W.R.” Saxon stepped aboard a Smoky Mountain Stages Inc. bus in Atlanta with his ticket grasped tightly in his hand. Bound for his home in the Southside neighborhood of ...

B OSTON (SHNS) – Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday officially designated Feb. 4 as Rosa Parks Day in Massachusetts, on what would ...

Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing to move out of a seat reserved for white passengers. Her arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon because she wouldn't give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus for a white man. But Parks' private description of that 1955 event didn't match the ...

The driver of the bus asked Parks and three other Black passengers to give up the seat to the white passengers, but then 42-year-old Parks refused. It’s Rosa Parks Day! Join us at Anacostia ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Thursday, Dec. 1, Knoxville Area Transit honored the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks by keeping one seat on every bus open. The seats had a placard to recognize how ...