Parks passed away in 2005 at 92, but her legacy lives on. Now, 68 years after that important moment in Black history, we remember some of Parks’ most captivating quotes about the importance of ...

Parks passed away in 2005 at 92, but her legacy lives on. Now, 68 years after that important moment in Black history, we remember some of Parks’ most captivating quotes about the importance of ...

This was the same model of bus that Rosa Parks rode daily and where she had refused to give up her seat. That bus and the museum are also located at the same spot of the iconic incident.

On December 1, 1955, the 42-year-old Parks, who was headed home from her job as a seamstress at a Montgomery, Alabama, department store, was ordered to give up her bus seat to a white man.

In 2018, the Alabama Legislature voted in favor of designating Dec. 1 as Rosa Parks Day. Dec. 1 is the day she was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus to a white ...

Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind yoga that connect the body and the mind.

Feb. 27, 2013 -- intro: Rosa Parks, the civil rights pioneer, made history again today by becoming the first African American woman to have her likeness depicted in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.