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.

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 ...

Gwen Ifill talks with biographer Jeanne Theoharis, whose book "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" offers a complex portrait of the woman best known for refusing to give up her seat on an ...

Rosa Parks' political ... that led Rosa Parks to her iconic moment on the bus in 1955. Though it ... Scottsboro symbolized Southern injustice and Montgomery was marching toward the history books.

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 ...

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 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' husband had a car and she took the bus just to be messy," one Threads user wrote. Social media posts spreading the claim were sometimes accompanied by a picture of Rosa and Raymond ...

Montgomery is a living history book full of locations connected to Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other civil rights tourism spots. Here are a few you might want to take in, or plan ...