October 2025 marked the 20th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ death. She was 92 when she died in her Detroit home in 2005. WDET’s Jerome Vaughn covered the story at the time and WDET aired that story this ...

DETROIT — Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress ...

DETROIT — Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday evening. She was 92. Mrs. Parks died at her home during the evening of ...

On a July morning in 1995, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta was the site of the closing ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change's 20th Annual Summer Workshop on ...

70 years ago today in Montgomery, Alabama, a quiet act of defiance by a courageous woman helped spark one of the most transformative movements in American history. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a ...

Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" rang out in the air on the night of Dec. 1 in downtown Montgomery as a crowd of about 40 people gathered for a unity walk at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial ...

It comes 64 years after Parks was arrested for violating segregation laws. City officials in Montgomery, Alabama, unveiled a new statue of Rosa Parks on Sunday, exactly 64 years after the civil rights ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation on Montgomery's city buses on Nov. 13, 1956, and a boycott of city buses officially ended just over a month later. An estimated 40,000 Black bus riders ...

It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America's civil rights movement. On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to ...

Mrs. Parks died Monday evening at her home of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years. She was 92. Monique Reynolds, 37 ...