Poem a Tribute to Legacy of Rosa Parks Poet Carole Boston Weatherford reads her poem December 1, 1955: Before Rosa Altered History in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery bus ...

MONTGOMERY, ALA. | Claudette Colvin, her fingers draped over the handle of a cane, watched intently as an actress captured the deepest irony of her life in one simple statement. "I'm as anonymous ...

Iconic photo of Parks was staged. RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — Almost everyone has seen the famous study in black and white, one of those rare photographs that enter the collective memory as a snapshot of ...

February 4 would have been Parks’ 106th birthday. If you believe in what she did and why she did it, it is time you knew who she really was. It might blow your mind and it might make you look at ...

Tuesday marks 60 years since Rosa Louise McCauley Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala., to a white man, becoming an iconic symbol in the Civil Rights Movement. Here are some ...

Rosa Parks took a historic stand against racial segregation when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1, 1955. The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement ...

Rosa Parks was a radical, civil right activist who spent years fighting for justice and she knew exactly what she was doing. In fact, she wasn’t even the first black woman to refuse to give up ...

Rosa Parks rides a Montgomery, Ala., bus after the city was forced to stop separating black and white riders. (Associated Press) Shortly after 5 p.m., on a cool Alabama evening 60 years ago ...

Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of celebrated civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Host Melissa Harris-Perry kicked off Black History Month with an illuminating conversation about ...

Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. Parks was a lifelong activist.