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 ...

A Citilink bus adorned with unique artwork paying tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been on the streets of Fort Wayne for only a few weeks, and it’s already turning heads.

Since at least 2024, social media users have claimed that Raymond Parks, the husband of civil rights/ bus boycott activist Rosa Parks, had a car. One post on X from May 2025 that repeated the ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn't the first person to use a bus ...

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American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Lieutenant DH Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, after she was arrested during the Montgomery bus boycott, 22nd February 1956.

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 ...

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is paying tribute to the legacy and courage of civil rights icon Rosa Parks with commemorative seats reserved in her honor on every bus ...

Rosa Parks’ refusal on a Montgomery bus is the stuff of American legend. Yet “her life history of being rebellious,” as she put it, is much less known, as we have grown comfortable with a ...

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 ...