The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks Day will serve as a reminder of the power of ordinary Americans to achieve extraordinary social change. And each ...

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 ...

She stood up for her rights by staying seated: Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. And it was the year that two white men brutally ...