Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee members held their first tribute in 2006. Then in 2008, they lobbied before the city ...

Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

There’s a seat reserved for Rosa Parks on every Metrobus and Metrorail train today. February 4 is the birthday of the civil ...

Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913?

In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill Haley's hit "Rock Around the Clock" around the clock, Billy Wilder's romantic comedy "The Seven Year Itch" starring Marilyn Monroe premiered in New ...

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.

Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.