Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor ...

On June 19, 1865, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, with a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, which he read , officially announcing enslaved people were free.

Alabama officially recognizes Juneteenth as a state holiday, prompting statewide celebrations. Multiple events are planned ...

For music fans, Nashville is a must. It is Music City, U.S.A. There, you can dive deep into Country music and then learn about all genres. Nashville’s museums showcase an artist’s original instruments ...

We have the Rosa Parks Bus Station right in our downtown area." Friday nights in summer mean concerts at Denton Green Park, where the music runs the gamut from jazz to R&B, gospel to reggae and more.

Rosa Parks’ death on Oct. 24, 2005, came almost exactly 50 years after she made history by refusing to leave her seat for a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This simple act of ...

For many cities as well as in Ohio, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Oregon Rosa Parks Day is celebrated on December 1, the day she was arrested while riding a segregated bus in Alabama, according ...

The Yakima Valley SunDome was packed when the petite woman with silvery hair and a soft voice began to speak. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990.The ...

When she was 15, she was arrested for not giving her seat up to a white woman 9 months before Rosa Parks. The Montgomery Bus Boycott activist, who now lives in Corpus Christi, looks back on that ...

Racial discrimination on a military bus led to Robinson's court martial 1944. ... and proceeded to engage in a form of protest prefiguring a similar action by Rosa Parks 11 years later.

Rosa Parks Day was Sunday. But the legacy of the civil rights activist will continue to be spotlighted Monday as MATA will commemorate her life with live history monologues aboard a Memphis bus.