Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

To protest her arrest, the Black community boycotted the Montgomery bus system, a pivotal event ... “Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned person who wasn ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important ... people to be treated the same. She was arrested and taken to jail for a few hours.

When she was 15, she was arrested for not giving her seat up to a white woman 9 months before Rosa Parks.

Segregation is illegal in the US. But President Trump's administration is removing anything that benefits people of specific ...

Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with ...

To light the candle is to resist. We must resist like Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, who founded the Congressional Union for ...