Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...

Dec. 1, 1955 began a movement in the United States when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus. The Knoxville Transit Authority said her actions shaped how the world works today.

Rosa Parks wrote those words just a short time after her famous refusal, 60 years ago this month, to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, a protest that galvanized a yearlong bus ...

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 ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white male. Her arrest sparked a citywide boycott against Montgomery buses – which brought them to the brink of bankruptcy.

Thousands of mourners packed a Detroit church Wednesday for an emotional tribute to civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who changed the country 50 years ago when she refused to give up her bus seat to a ...