Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city bus system on December 21, 1956© Getty Images ...

Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind yoga that connect the body and the mind.

The nonviolent mass protest ended with the Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. “Rosa Parks is a martyr for equality, an icon to all, a crusader for justice.

Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind yoga that connect the body and the mind.

The flat where the Parks family lived in Detroit, likely where Rosa Parks wrote down her peanut butter pancake recipe. Courtesy Michigan State Historic Preservation Office.

On Feb. 27, 2013, a statue of Rosa Parks commissioned by Congress was unveiled in National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, close to what would have been her 100th birthday.