Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

Rosa Parks' former home in Detroit has earned a local historic designation. Police are continuing investigation of a shooting on a DDOT bus Tuesday. Weather and other top stories.

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

Rosa Parks seated toward the front of the bus, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images) ...

The first passenger seat in each bus will be off limits, marked with a commemorative sign for Rosa Parks, who was arrested after refusing to give up her seat for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955 ...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers its first public peek inside the new David Geffen Galleries building, whose vast ...

R osa Parks transformed American history with her quiet defiance. On December 1, 1955, her refusal to give up her bus seat in ...

The fifth and final Buchholz player on the All Area team is junior infielder Blake Brewer. Brewer led the Bobcats with 47 ...

Her arrest in that incident helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott. After the boycott, Rosa and Raymond Parks moved to Hampton, Virginia, and then settled in Detroit. He died in 1977. She died in ...