To this day, Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery ...

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

The images drew outrage in the US and around the world, only strengthening the civil rights' cause. ... words that could never have been spoken by a black woman living there in Rosa Parks' day.

WASHINGTON — Metro is commemorating Rosa Parks Day and the historic icon who helped spark the Civil Rights Movement. Friday, every bus in the Metrobus fleet will feature a reserved seat in her ...

The Rosa Parks Day Act would designate Dec. 1 as a federal holiday marking Parks’ 1955 arrest in Montgomery, Alabama. She refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

Rosa Parks National Day of Courage is on Feb. 4, the civil rights activist's birthday. These 12 songs honor her inspiring life and valiance.

LANCASTER — Shortly after the new year began, Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill making Feb. 4 a day to set aside in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in Massachusetts. The bill’s initiator ...

Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday officially designated Feb. 4 as Rosa Parks Day in Massachusetts, on what would have been the civil rights leader’s 112th birthday.