He inspired his new wife to participate in activism ... declining in the early 2000s, and in 2004, she was diagnosed with progressive dementia. Then, on Oct. 24, 2005, Rosa Parks died at 92 ...

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the ...

Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat ... but the law is the law and you’re under arrest.” After years of activism, Parks had reached her breaking point on the bus that ...

You know Rosa ... Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power." More: Detroit movie event exposes a brutal chapter in history of American racism But that is just one example of Parks' activism, which ...

We’ve all been taught about Rosa Parks. We’ve seen the picture ... The bus protest wasn’t her first brush with activism. In the 1940s, Parks joined the Montgomery NAACP, and alongside ...

In “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” the icon of the ... the violence aimed at Black communities in the early 1920s. Hearing Parks recall that time illuminates just how brave she ...

They remind us Parks was an activist before and after she kept her bus seat. The filmmakers trace the early influences that shaped the leader's activism. Born Rosa McCauley on Feb. 4, 1913 ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged ... a prominent part of Parks’ life and activism. She died in 2005 in Detroit.