This simple act of disobedience was the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the ... were changed because of Parks and activists like her. The death of Rosa Parks also came only three ...

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. ‒ Local leaders, alongside members of the Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee, invite all neighbors to ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged ... the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks took a stand for civil ...

Rosa Parks, the black woman whose 1955 protest action in Alabama marked the start of the modern US civil rights movement, has died at the age of 92. Mrs Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white ...

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in ...

Past and present, these 20 civil rights leaders have bent the arc of history ... Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when ...

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. Parks died at her home during the ...