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TriMet will once again waive bus and MAX train fares for an entire day next week in honor of celebrated civil rights leader Rosa Parks. All public transit rides will be free Tuesday, Feb. 4 ...
After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of ...
It’s been almost 70 years since a Montgomery bus driver ordered Rosa Parks to move to the back of a bus. But it seems history is repeating itself after the same thing happened to two men who are ...
Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city bus system, Dec. 21, 1956.
According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...
DETROIT — Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday evening. She was 92.
Parks (center) rides on a newly integrated bus following the 1956 Supreme Court ruling that led to the successful end of the 381-day boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama.