In 1957, two years after her famous refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, Rosa ... to go. Museums said no. Memorials said no. Organizations that had worked with Parks, who ...

"Rosa Parks said, 'I didn't get on that bus to get arrested. I got on that bus to go home.' In so many ways, Rosa Parks brought America home, to our Founders' dream," Clinton said in 1999 upon ...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are continuing efforts to make Rosa Parks Day a federal ... “If you go back and look at that day [Parks’] body lay in [the U.S. Capitol Rotunda ...

Tuesday marks 60 years since Rosa Louise McCauley Parks refused ... but not planned for that time. "I got on it to go home," Parks has said. 3. Parks knew the bus driver. The driver was James ...

Friday marks 62 years since Rosa Louise McCauley Parks refused ... but not planned for that time. "I got on it to go home," Parks has said. 3. Parks knew the bus driver. The driver was James ...

You probably think you know the story of Rosa Parks ... It’s possible Parks was inspired by the news that the men who had lynched Emmett Till would go free. Thanks in part to a large archive ...

Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat 60 years ago today. — -- Dec. 1, 1955, was the day Rosa Parks became an icon for change. That was when the “Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights ...

Before this recent Supreme Court ruling, Rosa Parks' belongings were scheduled to go to auction. Now the Institute she created will be in control of them, as Parks wished (according to her trust ...