Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus : Code Switch Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old student from Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to yield her bus seat to a white ...

Rosa Parks became one of the major symbols of the civil rights movement after she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in 1955. For 381 days ...

Rosa Parks arrested in Alabama, Dec. 1, 1955 Rosa Parks arrives at circuit court Feb. 24, 1956 in Montgomery, Ala. | AP Photo By Andrew Glass 12/01/2018 02:10 AM EST ...

Rosa Parks' refusal to give her seat on a bus to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955, galvanized black Americans and sparked an era of civil rights activism, the effects of which are still being felt in ...

The Alabama Legislature gave final approval to a bill that sets up a process to pardon civil rights icon Rosa Parks and hundreds of others arrested for violating segregation-era laws. The sponsor ...

2/15/95--Civil rights leader Rosa Parks listens to second-grader Samantha Clark read a poem at Williams High School auditorium. She spoke to second-graders from Plano ISD as part of Random Acts of ...

Rosa Parks and her husband standing in front of a car. (Library of Congress) While the photo is legitimate and can be found in the Library of Congress' archives , the car wasn't owned by Raymond ...

Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913? She went to an industrial school for girls and continued on to what is ...

The Alabama Women's Tribute Statute Commission approved a design for a Rosa Parks statue that will be installed at the top of the steps of the Alabama State Capitol.

The commission, charged with erecting statues of Keller and Rosa Parks on the Alabama State Capitol Grounds, should also get an update on work on the Parks statue from Julia Knight, a sculptor ...

The Alabama Women’s Tribute Statute Commission Tuesday approved a design for a Rosa Parks statue that will be installed at the top of the steps of the Alabama State Capitol.

Rosa Parks will be honored with a new statue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday, 64 years to the day she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a city bus.