When Rosa Parks was a little girl in rural Alabama, ... The sketch is “Rosa with her hair down,” she said. “She’s 6 years old . . . waiting for Grandpa to kill a Ku-Kluxer.

A new exhibit at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., shows a very different Rosa Parks from the woman many people learned about in history class.

Six decades ago, Rosa Parks, then 42, uttered perhaps the most famous “No” in American history and helped launch the modern civil rights movement — a struggle that many say continues today.

You may think you know Rosa Parks. But a new exhibit at the Library of Congress aims to educate visitors even more. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A spotlight on America ...

“Parks and Recreation” fans rejoiced when Leslie Knope and April Ludgate appeared on “Saturday Night Live” fake news segment “Weekend Update.” And they even snuck in a Rosa Parks pun.

But Rosa Parks, mother of the modern-day civil rights movement, remained a distant figure from history for most students at Baltimore’s Rosa Parks-St. Ambrose Catholic School.

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 ...

Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon who died in 2005, would have turned 107 today. She wasn't the first activist jailed for not giving up her seat.

Celebrate the life and legacy of Rosa Parks with this special collection from PBS.While Parks may not be the first African American to challenge the status quo of segregation laws in the south ...