*The Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) honored the legacy of Rosa Parks, a civil rights icon, on December 1, 2016. Each bus in their fleet had a seat reserved in her honor and their headlights ...

Metro is placing signs reading “Rosa Parks Day: Today this seat is reserved to honor Rosa Parks” on one seat in every bus. (Courtesy WMATA) Metro is setting aside one seat on every bus in its ...

On December 1, 1955, civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Now 64 years to the date, the Milwaukee Country Transit System honors the Presidential Medal of ...

It’s the 67th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ infamous protest that changed the course of history. On December 1, 1955, Parks made the ultimate decision to be still in protest by refusing to relinquish her ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – The “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” is now featured front-and-center on a Citilink bus, 68 years after she stood up for her rights by sitting down in a segregated bus.

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 ...

In the segregated South, African Americans were denied equality in the workplace, a chance for a decent education and the right to visit restaurants and use restrooms that white people also used. In ...

Four days of celebration and reflection are coming this weekend with the 68th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the legacy of civil rights icon Rosa Parks — who famously refused to give ...

WASHINGTON — Metro is commemorating Rosa Parks Day and the historic icon who helped spark the Civil Rights Movement. Friday, every bus in the Metrobus fleet will feature a reserved seat in her honor.

A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa Parks did. On Transit Equity Day on Tuesday, the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority is honoring her pivotal act of defiance that ignited the ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...

Sixty-eight years ago on this day, December 1 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested “for disobeying an Alabama law requiring Black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full,” ...