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.

There's a new effort to create a federal holiday in honor of Rosa Parks. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell held a news conference ...

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 ...

As a young woman, Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to live with her husband, Raymond Parks. Raymond was a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...

Her parents separated when she was very young. She grew up with her ... facilities for white people were always better. Rosa McCauley became Rosa Parks when she married Raymond Parks in 1932.

This week, we’ll discuss civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in 1913 in a small city in Alabama, a state in America’s Deep South. The region has a long history of ...

She stood up for her rights by staying seated: Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. And it was the year that two white men brutally ...