5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous ...

Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February ... to a white man. Here are some facts about Parks and the movement: 1. Parks wasn't the first. Fifteen-year-old civil rights activist Claudette ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...

“Not a single federal holiday honors a woman,” said U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio.). Beatty said designating Dec. 1 as Rosa ...

The bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat is a symbol of her defiance that changed the course of history in America. That bus was once in ruins, but now it sits at the Henry Ford ...

Today is the 62nd anniversary of when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Known as the "mother of the Civil Rights Movement" in the 1950s ...