Before James Blake ordered Rosa Parks ... bus boycott, a protest aiming to end segregation in the city’s public transit system that was a foundational event of the civil rights movement.

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a ...

The bus believed to be the one Rosa Parks made famous Dec. 1 ... wheeled symbol of the civil rights movement to the museum, leaving a group of MSX painters, metal workers, mechanics and machinists ...

DEARBORN, MI - The Henry Ford Museum in ... birthday of civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Take a look in our photo gallery (photos courtesy of The Henry Ford) of the historic bus Parks took ...

In 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis ... or on a vintage city bus next to Rosa Parks. News reports and famous speeches fill the air with urgency. One highlight remains the same ...

“The bus in which Rosa Parks helped inaugurate the civil rights movement will be restored in Dearborn, Mich., by Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village.” By then, The Rosa Parks bus project ...

Steve Hamp, president of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, called the bus “the most important artifact in civil rights history ... project manager for the Rosa Parks Museum and Library ...

Rosa Parks took a historic stand against racial segregation when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1, 1955. The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement ...

That event — which touched off the Montgomery bus boycott and began ... Montgomery dedicates the Rosa Parks Library and Museum. Joining Parks will be such civil rights figures as Martin Luther ...

Rochester, N.Y.- The Civil Rights Museum on Wheels was parked at Zion ... It is also the exact make and model of the bus Rosa Parks rode on the day she refused to give up her seat to a white ...

The Rosa Parks Library and Museum opened in November ... the annual Pathways to Freedom bus tour taking students to the sites of key events in the civil rights movement — routinely cost more ...

(WSFA) - Sunday marks 111 years since the birth of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Her life and legacy ... refused to give up her seat. That bus and the museum are also located at the same spot ...