Parks was a passenger on a crowded Cleveland Avenue bus on Dec. 1, 1955, when she refused an order by a white bus driver to give her seat up to a white passenger who had entered the crowded bus.

Rosa Parks Museum celebrates her 111th birthday The API failed to deliver the resource. Sunday marks 111 years since the birth of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

The mural-wrapped bus celebrates Transit Equity Day on the 111th anniversary of Parks’ birth. SEED Fort Wayne, a nonprofit community redevelopment organization, sponsored the bus’s wrap, and ...

Monday morning, hundreds of women and community members joined together for the 17th Annual Rosa Parks Women of Courage Breakfast. Each year to kick off Women’s History Month, Sisters Inc. in ...

The stamp ceremony was part of a 12-hour event at The Henry Ford in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Parks’ birth that also featured speeches and live music.

Rosa Parks Day is already celebrated in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 1, as well as in Ohio, Oregon, and Texas. California, which first celebrated Rosa Parks Day, chose Feb. 4, the date of Parks ...

The stamp ceremony was part of a 12-hour event at the Henry Ford historical area to mark the 100th anniversary of Parks' birth. It also featured speeches and live music.

The Library of Congress released Rosa Parks' "Featherlite Pancakes" recipe, which was written on the back of a bank envelope from the First Independence National Bank of Detroit.