The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

Rosa Parks arrested in Alabama, Dec. 1, 1955 Rosa Parks arrives at circuit court Feb. 24, 1956 in Montgomery, Ala. | AP Photo By Andrew Glass 12/01/2018 02:10 AM EST ...

Rosa Parks will be honored with a new statue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday, 64 years to the day she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a city bus.

Rosa Parks is honored by four states with a holiday, but her home state of Alabama isn't one them. A state senator would like to see that changed. But legislation introduced on March 6 designating ...

Before Rosa Parks, A Teenager Defied Segregation On An Alabama Bus : Code Switch Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old student from Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to yield her bus seat to a white ...

Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon who died in 2005, ... Parks died in 2005 at the age of 92, but the Alabama native's refusal to give up her bus seat on Dec. 1, 1955, ...

A new statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was unveiled in Montgomery, Ala., marking exactly 64 years since she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. Mont… ...

The Alabama Women’s Tribute Statute Commission expects to finalize a contract by mid-September to design a statue of writer and activist Helen Keller, to be placed on the steps of the Alabama ...

Rosa Parks' refusal to give her seat on a bus to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955, galvanized black Americans and sparked an era of civil rights activism, the effects of which are still being felt in ...

Alabama officially recognizes Juneteenth as a state holiday, prompting statewide celebrations. Multiple events are planned throughout the state, including a free celebration at the Rosa Parks Museum, ...