Long before Rosa Parks rode her way into the history books, as the African American woman who refused in 1955 to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, she was a fighter for ...

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 was a supporter of the Black Panthers," O'Brien says, referring to the political organization formed in 1966 by Black power revolutionary Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

In “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” the icon of the title expresses a hint of frustration at being defined as a seamstress who got tired. “Interviewers still only want to talk about ...

ATLANTA - Rosa Park, whose simple act of defiance became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement, would be turning 111 on Sunday.. The courage of Parks, often referred to as "the first lady ...

It was a small act of defiance, but Rosa Parks' refusal, as a black woman, to give up her bus seat to a white man, would change the course of American history. On 1 December 1955, the 42-year-old ...