Parks is considered by many to be one of the bravest civil rights movement leaders, and her contributions to the movement have been recognized locally since 2006 by the Rosa Parks Quiet Courage ...

Decades after her act of defiance, Rosa Parks galvanized a cadre of activists to protest their own conditions and, though the scope of her legacy for them is still coming into focus, it remains just ...

The seated statue of Rosa Parks is the first of three monuments at the Legacy Plaza honoring civil rights leaders. Alabama’s Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) immortalized civil rights icon Rosa Parks ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A new statue of civil rights legend Rosa Parks was unveiled Wednesday in Montgomery. The public can view the work of art in Montgomery’s Legacy Plaza, located across from the ...

The Memphis Area Transit Authority honored the legacy of Rosa Parks on Thursday by leaving a seat open on its buses. Thursday, Dec. 1 marked the 67th anniversary of the day in 1955 when Parks refused ...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- All 318 Milwaukee County buses will reserve a seat this Friday and throughout the first weekend of December with a red rose and a special sign honoring Rosa Parks and her ...

Hampton Roads Transit is honoring civil rights trailblazer Rosa Parks’ legacy Friday by providing free bus, light rail, ferry, microtransit, and paratransit services. Friday is Transit Equity Day — a ...

In honor of Rosa Parks and her legacy of courage, MCTS will once again reserve a seat on every bus in its fleet from Dec. 1 through Dec. 3. Each reserved seat will feature a red rose and a ...

The first day of December marked the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat to a White man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. That simple but defiant rejection of the ...

Childhood memories came back to 51-year-old Kenneth Cantrell of Rochester on Friday afternoon after he saw the new name emblazoned on a downtown Mayo Clinic building. Rosa Parks Pavilion. "I think ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Congresswoman Terri Sewell continues her campaign to make Rosa Parks Day a federal holiday every December 1. That’s the anniversary of Parks’s arrest in Montgomery in 1955, ...