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 ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Relive her activism in photos ...

According to the Henry Ford museum website, the Rosa Parks bus project received a whopping $205,000 through the Save America’s Treasures Program to help assist the restoration.

Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955. But Parks' civil rights protest did have a precedent ...

On Saturday, 63 years after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to change seats on the Cleveland Avenue bus, a replica of the city transport will sit parked outside the Troy University Rosa Parks ...

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. The ...

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful ...

The driver of the bus asked Parks and three other Black passengers to give up the seat to the white passengers, but then 42-year-old Parks refused. It’s Rosa Parks Day! Join us at Anacostia ...

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.

American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956.