The book also sheds new light on the incident that cemented Parks' role as the mother of the modern day civil rights movement and the beginnings of the 1955-56 bus boycott in Montgomery.

A new book by Brooklyn College political science professor and Milwaukee native Jeanne Theoharis sheds much more light on the complete story of Rosa Parks. "The Montgomery bus boycott and her bus ...

Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you probably didn't know. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

“Beyond the Bus” is a narrow memoir, not of the life of H.H. Leonards, but specifically of her deep friendship with Mrs. Rosa Parks, things she learned about Mrs. Parks that few knew, and the ...

S ince 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 ...

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after she refused to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger, in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. Underwood Archives/Getty Images 1.

Pushing for library integration. The cost to the bus company was far greater, with a boycott that lasted 381 days. At the time of her arrest, she was already actively involved in the NAACP working ...

Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you ...

Don Noble’s newest book is Alabama Noir, a collection of original stories by Winston Groom, ... Brad Watson, and eleven other Alabama authors. “Rosa Parks Beyond the Bus: Life, Lessons, and ...