When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...

Alabama officials are considering a bid to clear arrest records of civil rights icons Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, both convicted in the 1950s. Last week, The Root reported that 82 year ...

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956. She was among some 100 people charged with violating segregation laws. Parks, refusal to move to the back of a ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- About 2,000 children marched arm-in-arm Thursday, singing "We Shall Overcome" as this once-segregated city marked the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus ...

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 ...

Born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Parks became a symbol of resistance and civil disobedience when she defiantly refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated city bus in ...

Rosa Parks and her impact on Alabama and Civil Rights history will be symbolized with a statue on the State Capitol grounds ...

In the segregated South, African Americans were denied equality in the workplace, a chance for a decent education and the right to visit restaurants and use restrooms that white people also used. In ...