Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rosa Parks, left, makes bond to Circuit Court in December 1955 for violating Montgomery's segregation ordinance for city buses.

Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955. But Parks' civil rights protest did have a precedent: ...

On the northwest corner of Washington and Main Street in downtown Columbia, South Carolina, a brown commemorative street sign sits discreetly above the standard, green signages. Sarah Mae Flemming Way ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to clear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At age 15, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, months before Rosa Parks. She became one of four ...

HOUSTON — METRO is honoring the legacy and courage of civil rights icon Rosa Parks with commemorative seats at the front of some transit vehicles. Parks challenged segregation and changed the course ...

Along with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture, Rosa Parks is one of the celebrated names of the civil rights movement: the Montgomery, Alabama woman who refused to move from her seat ...

You know Rosa Parks as the civil rights icon who sparked the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama by refusing to give up her seat to a white man in 1955. You can picture her face, somber and ...

Rosa Parks Day would mark the first federal holiday to honor a Black woman, or any woman, period, in American history. The Rosa Parks Day Act, a bill that would make Dec. 1, the date Rosa Parks was ...

Sixty-seven years ago, the crushing heel of racism had finally pushed down too far to bear for a 42-year-old Montgomery seamstress. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was tired of the hatred that her city had ...

Montgomery, Ala. – The quest by a civil rights pioneer to have her arrest record wiped clean after nearly 70 years after she protested racial segregation has raised the possibility of similar bids to ...