Many commenters appeared to believe the claim discredited Parks, who was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955 — an event that sparked the Montgomery ...

A claim began circulating online in early 2024 that civil rights activist Rosa Parks' husband, Raymond Parks, had a car. It's unclear where the rumor originated, but it was repeated by American ...

We know Rosa Parks was a plant,” he said. Parks is famously known for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus, a move that resulted in her arrest. Parks’ activism ...

"The Life of Rosa Parks' — this apparently is too woke by the Republican Party," she said, referencing a book by Kathleen Connors. The book, which tells the story of Parks, a Black woman who ...

Claim: Rosa Parks said of the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas in 1991: "His confirmation to the highest court in the land would not represent a step forward in the road to racial ...

The Rev. Elisha W. Green was “the unknown Rosa Parks,” according to George T. Vaughn, a former Maysville Community and Technical College English professor. “He refused to give up his seat ...

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 ...

In my mind's eye, every day should be Rosa Parks Day because of who she was, what she stood for, what she believed in, and how she treated people. From the day that I met her, she was always more ...

Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. Parks was a lifelong activist.