Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

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 is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913?

On Saturday, Feb. 1, Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum will host a celebration of the civil rights figure’s life and legacy ...

I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin," she said at an NAACP meeting in 1956. The Rosa Parks statue at the US ...

Rosa Parks was actively involved in civil rights work long before the famous bus incident. She joined the NAACP in 1943. McDonalds Black History Month - 360Wise ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...

MONTGOMERY--Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum will celebrate what would have been the Civil Rights icon’s 112th birthday on ...