Rosa Parks was arrested for her refusal to give up her bus seat It was a small act of defiance, but Rosa Parks' refusal, as a black woman, to give up her bus seat to a white man, would change the ...

But Mrs Parks was well aware that the journey she had started that day was unfinished. This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “Rosa Parks died on ...

Rosa Parks’ mugshot is one of the most famous images of the civil rights movement. In it, Parks holds number 7053, looking both calm and defiant. But though the Rose Parks mugshot has been ...

Rosa Parks, the black woman whose 1955 protest action in Alabama marked the start of the modern US civil rights movement, has died at the age of 92. Mrs Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white ...

(Scroll down to watch Rosa Parks' obituary from 2005) Parks was arrested for refusing to move. The subsequent boycott lasted for 381 days before the Supreme Court eventually ruled the Alabama law ...