Rosa Parks wasn’t born a household name, nor was she someone seeking fame. She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, in a time when segregation was law and inequality was everywhere.

Washington ― The U.S. House voted Wednesday to approve legislation renaming a federal building in Detroit for the civil rights icon Rosa Parks, sending it to President Joe Biden's desk for ...

We’ve all been taught about Rosa Parks. We’ve seen the picture of her sitting placidly on the bus looking out the window, or maybe the statue of her in the US Capitol, where she is seated ...

Rosa Parks Guest host Frank Stasio talks to Weekend Edition commentator and historian Douglas Brinkley about the life of Rosa Parks. Little else is known about her life, apart from the historic ...

first introduced National Rosa Parks Day in September 2021. In January, Sewell, Beatty, and Horsford reintroduced the legislation, giving the statute a new name, the Rosa Parks Day Act.