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

Iconic civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala., and died on Oct. 24, 2005, from natural causes. She was 92. Take a look back at the life and legacy of Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony ... Financial difficulties and family illness during the Great Depression forced Parks to drop out of school at age 16. She became a domestic worker and a ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger Today we celebrate the life of Rosa Parks. The late ...

People gathered at the California Capitol for the 25th Annual Rosa Parks Day. Sacramento Regional Transit brought out old ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...

I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin," she said at an NAACP meeting in 1956. The Rosa Parks statue at the US ...