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

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

A local historic designation would protect the flat from demolition or major outward changes without city approval. A public hearing is planned.

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

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 ...

After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of ...

Rosa Parks is a plant? Many commenters believed that the rumor discredited Parks, who was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955, sparking the Montgomery ...

Montgomery and Huntsville will honor the anniversary of bus boycott with museum tours and free bus rides on Rosa Parks Day. The Alabama cities of Montgomery and Huntsville are preparing to honor ...

By Sarah Mervosh Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Ala., in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Now 82, she says that justice from the court ...