On December 1, 1955, civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Now 64 years to the date, the Milwaukee Country Transit System honors the Presidential Medal ...

Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. Parks was a lifelong activist.

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Conyers once remarked, “Rosa Parks was so famous that people would come by my office to meet her, not me.” Years after the boycott, Parks was still a target Unfortunately, Parks wasn’t ...

Sewell, a Democrat, introduced H.R. 308 which would establish the federal holiday, in January. The bill is backed by 31 co-sponsors, all of whom are members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

A Florida textbook publisher removed all references to race from a lesson about Rosa Parks, the Alabama civil rights hero, in an effort to get its books approved by a Florida committee, The New ...

Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you probably didn't know. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...

A claim began circulating online in early 2024 that civil rights activist Rosa Parks' husband, Raymond Parks, had a car. It's unclear where the rumor originated, but it was repeated by American ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL, sparked the Civil Rights Movement. While Parks became an icon, the lesser-known heroes of ...

Rosa Parks was 42 and all of 5-feet in 1955, when she refused an order from a bus driver to give up her seat to a white passenger. But by some transmutation known only to talented actors, ...

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a ...

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