For months, internet users have circulated a rumor that civil rights activist Rosa Parks' husband, Raymond Parks, had a car. Many commenters appeared to believe the claim discredited Parks ...

A claim began circulating online in early 2024 that civil rights activist Rosa Parks' husband, Raymond Parks, had a car. It's unclear where the rumor originated, but it was repeated by American ...

Celebrate the life and legacy of Rosa Parks with this special collection from PBS. While Parks may not be the first African American to challenge the status quo of segregation laws in the south ...

Rosa Parks’ mugshot is one of the most famous images of the civil rights movement. In it, Parks holds number 7053, looking both calm and defiant. But though the Rose Parks mugshot has been ...

Rosa Parks is best remembered as the African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. It was 1955 in the segregated South and the start of the Montgomery bus boycott.

Rosa Parks, the Alabama seamstress whose simple act of defiance on a segregated Montgomery bus in 1955 stirred the nonviolent protests of the modern civil rights movement and catapulted an unknown ...

Rosa Parks Day would mark the first federal holiday to honor a Black woman, or any woman, period, in American history. The Rosa Parks Day Act, a bill that would make Dec. 1, the date Rosa Parks ...

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 ...

Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Her courageous act is now American legend. She is a staple of elementary school curricula and was the second ...