African American women stand on the shoulders of giants like Rosa Parks | Opinion On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to go to the back of the bus and was arrested.

Rosa Parks Statue, Capitol's First Of African-American Woman, To Be Dedicated : The Two-Way The late civil rights icon's statue will join those in the National Statuary Hall Collection. The ...

Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

Fifty years ago today, on December 1, 1955, at 6 p.m. in the evening, Rosa Louise Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She took her normal seat toward the front of the “colored only ...

Celebrate the life and legacy of Rosa Parks with this special collection from PBS.While Parks may not be the first African American to challenge the status quo of segregation laws in the south ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. was an act of individual resistance and her bravery changed the course of history and made her an American icon.

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955 ...

In 2005, she became the first woman and second African American to lie in honor in the nation's Capitol… Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude Home ...

Rosa Parks' "Featherlite Pancake" recipe was written on the back of an envelope. After she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955, she and her husband lost their jobs and ...

It was a typical evening on Dec. 1, 1955 when Rosa Parks boarded the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day working as a department store seamstress. Parks sat ...

Washington ― Two Michigan Democrats are pushing conflicting legislation in Congress to name the same federal building in Detroit after two different late iconic figures from the African American ...