Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the “mother of the ... neighbor who employed her as a housekeeper in 1931. The six-page essay, written in her own hand many years after the incident, is ...

NEW YORK - Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the "mother of the ... who employed her as a housekeeper in 1931. The six-page essay, written in her own hand many years after the incident, is ...

There are many other examples—Sarah Vowell wrote a great 2001 essay for Time, which I found while researching this column, that detailed the absurd Rosa Parks comparisons up to that time ...

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 continues to surprise, even in death. The iconic figure of the U.S. civil rights movement famously refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, sparking ...

Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Her courageous act is now American legend. She is a staple of elementary school curricula and was the second ...

We’ve all been taught about Rosa Parks. We’ve seen the picture of her sitting placidly on the bus looking out the window, or maybe the statue of her in the US Capitol, where she is seated ...

It’s the 67th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ infamous protest that changed the course of history. On December 1, 1955, Parks made the ultimate decision to be still in protest by refusing to ...

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1 ...

Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the "mother of the civil ... who employed her as a housekeeper in 1931. The six-page essay, written in her own hand many years after the incident, is among ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Long before Rosa Parks was hailed as the "mother of the ... who employed her as a housekeeper in 1931. The six-page essay, written in her own hand many years after the incident ...