As thousands of people lined up at the U.S. Capitol to pay their final respects to civil rights hero Rosa Parks after her death last month at age 92, teachers throughout the nation were marking the ...

DETROIT - Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92. Parks died at her home of natural causes, said Karen ...

October 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ death. She was 92 when she died in her Detroit home in 2005. WDET’s ...

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Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks became a symbol of the mass movement against racism that eventually forced the dismantling of the system of official segregation in the American South. Her arrest on ...

Sony BMG and Rosa Parks, who became a symbol for the U.S. civil rights movement when she refused to yield her seat on a segregated bus in 1955, settled her lawsuit over the use of her name in an ...

SHE HAD NO army behind her. The law was against her. Only a few people knew her name. But Rosa Parks's individual act of courage and determination on Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., ultimately ...

Rosa Parks' powerful quote, "The only tired I was, was tired of giving in," transcends physical exhaustion to represent a ...

In Montgomery, Ala., Rosa Parks Avenue stretches from north to south for nearly three miles. On that street you'll find the Cleveland Court apartments where Rosa Parks and her husband lived. NPR's ...

The Mother of America’s civil rights movement died yesterday. Rosa Lee Parks, who inspired an entire race to stand up for its rights by refusing in 1955 to give up her bus seat to a white man in ...

The passing of Rosa Parks made me remember a day many years ago when I was a young reporter in Rochester, and Rosa made a stop in the city. It's been long enough that some of the details are now fuzzy ...