The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.

People in Montgomery gathered to celebrate what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday at Troy University’s Rosa Parks ...

Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting home from her job as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair department store on Dec. 1, 1955, when she boarded a Montgomery city bus. She paid her fare and made her ...

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal was a protest about racism against black people. Racism is when someone ...