From her famous quotes about the bus to the best Rosa Parks quotes about equality, ... Parks inspired the African American community to boycott buses for 381 days, ...

Rosa Parks wasn’t born a household name, nor was she someone seeking fame. She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, in a time when segregation was law and inequality was everywhere.

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

Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, ... Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player in modern years to play in the Major Leagues. He was born on Jan. 31, 1919, ...

On a winter's evening in 1955, a 42-year-old African-American woman named Rosa Parks, tired after a long day of work as a seamstress, boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to get home.

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 ...

"Rosa Parks was a supporter of the Black Panthers," O'Brien says, referring to the political organization formed in 1966 by Black power revolutionary Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

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 in the fifth row, where people ...