Politics Rep. McGovern read a book on Rosa Parks into the record to protest ‘bans’ — but Florida is pushing back The Mass. congressman was calling out GOP legislation that he fears would ...

Here are 12 things we need to understand about her, drawn from my book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (available in its original form and in a young-adult version, with Brandy Colbert).

Kept in a controlled environment in “the stacks,” it consists of about 10,000 items — family history, personal correspondence, writing fragments, financial records, photos and books ...

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat in a bus for a White passenger. (Gene Herrick/AP) On ...

Rosa Parks has been gone for nearly 20 years. Her legacy lives on, and now the City of Detroit wants to ensure her longtime ...

Rosa Parks, who died Monday at the age of 92, changed history on December 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. Her arrest for this triggered a 381-day ...

A Florida textbook publisher removed all references to race from a lesson about Rosa Parks, the Alabama civil rights hero, in an effort to get its books approved by a Florida committee, The New ...

Based on Jeanne Theoharis' book, also titled The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the new film (surprisingly, the first full-length feature documentary devoted to this key figure of the civil ...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus marked the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest by urging Congress to support a bill that would declare December 1, “Rosa Parks Day,” a federal ...

A Florida textbook publisher removed all references to race from a lesson about Rosa Parks, the Alabama civil rights hero, in an effort to get its books approved by a Florida committee, The New ...