Free tours of Rosa Parks' apartment: Montgomery Housing Authority invites guests to tour the home of Rosa Parks, 660 Cleveland Court.The items inside have been preserved or recreated to showcase ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, AL, sparked the Civil Rights Movement. While Parks became an icon, the lesser-known heroes of ...

What you might not have known is that this wasn’t Parks’ first time protesting for civil rights “on a bus.” More than a decade earlier, in 1943 Parks was trying to get “to the clerk’s ...

Olmsted Parks is TARC's Design-a-Bus partner for 2025. “Public transit is intertwined with the history of the civil rights movement,” said TARC Executive Director Ozzy Gibson.

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

VIA honors her legacy with a special Rosa Parks seat on every bus. In 1987, Parks attended San Antonio MLK March and rode on a 1950s vintage VIA bus. In 2018 and 2019 , groups of Freedom Riders ...

One of the places we visited on a recent trip to Michigan was the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit.

The bare stage didn’t have a chair, just a table with water. Becky Stone, one of the scholar-actors with the Colorado Humanities Black History Tour, quietly entered. Rosa Parks was 42 and all of 5 ...

American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956.

The driver of the bus asked Parks and three other Black passengers to give up the seat to the white passengers, but then 42-year-old Parks refused. It’s Rosa Parks Day! Join us at Anacostia ...

A Citilink bus adorned with unique artwork paying tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been on the streets of Fort Wayne for only a few weeks, and it’s already turning heads. The ...

According to the Henry Ford museum website, the Rosa Parks bus project received a whopping $205,000 through the Save America’s Treasures Program to help assist the restoration.