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

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 ...

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.

On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old seamstress named Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, even after the white bus driver ...

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 ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in ... when she was arrested and jailed for refusing to surrender her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Ala.