A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil ...

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting home from her job as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store on Dec. 1, 1955, when she boarded a Montgomery city bus.

To coincide with Parks' trial on Dec. 5, 1955, a Black women's group called the Women's Political Council initiated a one-day citywide bus boycott that was extended through a vote at Holt Street ...

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

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Parks' arrest ignited a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, led by a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is often credited with giving rise to the modern civil rights movement.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955 after Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat. Black taxi drivers provided alternative transportation for thousands of boycotters. Police ...

Parks’ protest fueled a fire throughout Montgomery, Alabama, which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and dealt a significant financial blow to bus companies in the area, according to the NAACP.