Those in attendance got to see history up close, such as a 1950s era Montgomery city bus. This was the same model of bus that Rosa Parks rode daily and where she had refused to give up her seat.

Dear Editor: Professor Abramowitz may have missed Thomas Sowell’s major point [“Sowell’s Rosa Parks Column Rebutted by Emory Professor,” Human Events, November 7]. It was state law, supported by ...

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

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.

Rosa Parks visits an exhibit illustrating her bus ride of December 1955, at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, July 15, 1995.