TriMet will once again waive bus and MAX train fares for an entire day next week in honor of celebrated civil rights leader Rosa Parks. All public transit rides will be free Tuesday, Feb. 4 ...

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.

Bayway, Bay County's public transit service, announced it plans to offer free rides on Tuesday, Feb. 4, in honor of Rosa Parks' birthday.

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 ...

S ince at least 2024, social media users have claimed that Raymond Parks, the husband of civil rights/ bus boycott activist Rosa Parks, had a car.. One post on X from May 2025 that repeated the ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful ...

Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting home from her job as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store on Dec. 1, 1955, when she boarded a Montgomery city bus.

Rosa Parks, black woman whose refusal to relinquish her seat to white man on city bus in Montgomery, Ala, 50 years ago sparked civil rights movement of 1950's and 1960's, dies at age 92; events ...

Object Details Author Theoharis, Jeanne Subject Parks, Rosa 1913-2005 Contents National honor, public mythology : the passing of Rosa Parks -- "A life history of being rebellious" : the early years of ...

Traffic crashes skyrocket in 1924, Prohibition ends in 1933, Rosa Parks’ arrest sparks boycott in 1955, New Castle County school desegregation in 1993 ...

Had she lived a few more weeks, Rosa Parks could have seen the federal building near her home in Detroit renamed today to mark the 50th anniversary of her refusal to surrender a bus seat to a ...