A Citilink bus adorned with unique artwork paying tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been on the streets of Fort Wayne for only a few weeks, and it’s already turning heads. The ...

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

Sixty-eight years after Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, history is repeating itself in the scariest way.

On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after a long day at the Montgomery Fair department, where she worked as a seamstress. The driver of the bus asked Parks and three other ...

FILE - Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955.

Parks' arrest ignited a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, led by a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is often credited with giving rise to the modern civil rights movement.

The Rosa Parks bus is located at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. While the city of Louisville might not have the bus itself, they do have plans in place to honor the beloved activist.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was tired of the hatred that her city had fallen into — a legalized foolishness of segregation that had officially armed city bus drivers with police powers to enforce ...

Knoxville Area Transit will honor Rosa Parks on Sunday, Dec. 1, by keeping one seat open on every bus. The seat will feature a placard recognizing the contribution Parks made and how the small act ...

Though she had many awards through the years for her quiet strength and persistent hope, including: the Rosa Park Peace Prize in Stockholm in 1994, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996, a day ...