In December 1955, Rosa ... before Parks’ role in the boycott made her a respected figure across the country. Between the bus ...

When she was still a girl, she watched her grandfather, Sylvester, guard the family home with a shotgun ... laws which reflect our way of life.” Rosa Parks’ mugshot — as well as a photo ...

Parks wrote poetically about how life under Jim Crow ... for the movement despite her family’s imperiled finances. Even after the boycott ended, neither Rosa nor Raymond could find steady ...

BERLIN — Section by section, American artist Ryan Mendoza painstakingly disassembled the small wood-frame home of civil rights icon Rosa Parks after learning that the struggling city of Detroit ...

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 ...