October 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ death. She was 92 when she died in her Detroit home in 2005. WDET’s Jerome Vaughn covered the story at the time and WDET aired that story this ...

DETROIT — Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress ...

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks sits in a 1950s era bus in Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 2, 1995, some forty years after being arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Parks died ...

In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill Haley's hit "Rock Around the Clock" around the clock, Billy Wilder's ...

It comes 64 years after Parks was arrested for violating segregation laws. City officials in Montgomery, Alabama, unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks on Sunday, exactly 64 years after the civil rights ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Riders will not be charged for taking TriMet transportation on Tuesday, Feb. 4, in honor of the birthday of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, the company announced. The date marks ...

The civil rights icon left behind more than 8,000 pieces of memorabilia. May 18, 2012 — -- A Michigan attorney is alleging that a judge and two lawyers have executed a plan to "raid and bankrupt" ...

DETROIT — Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday evening. She was 92. Mrs. Parks died at her home during the evening ...

Mrs. Parks died Monday evening at her home of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years. She was 92. Monique Reynolds, 37 ...