Author and historian Jeanne Theoharis said Montgomery segregationists at the time of the boycotts also spread rumors that the ...

Quote of the day by Rosa Parks inspires us to think beyond the boundaries of a single lifetime. We may not be able to control ...

Today is the 61st anniversary of the day Rosa Parks helped kickstart the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. It arrives as Donald Trump, a man many ...

The award-winning journalist is the executive producer of a new documentary, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, which challenges the simplified narrative of a civil rights icon Based in Los ...

Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery buses ...

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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, 1955.

Rosa Parks would have celebrated her 107th birthday on Tuesday Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the brand since 2017, working as an intern, ...

Explore the Montgomery Advertiser's collection of archival reporting about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks would have been 100 years old today. NPR's Celeste Headlee talks ...

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THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Leader Reid, Leader McConnell, Leader Pelosi, Assistant Leader Clyburn; to the friends and family of Rosa Parks; to the distinguished guests who are gathered here today.