Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, ... Essence. 5 Things History Books Didn’t Tell Us About Rosa Parks’ Famous Arrest. Story by Malaika Jabali • 1w. T oday, February ...

The Parks family didn't have a car until then, according to Jeanne Theoharis, professor of political science at Brooklyn College and author of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks." ...

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat in a bus for a White passenger. (Gene Herrick/AP) On ...

Rosa Parks, who died Monday at the age of 92, changed history on December 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. Her arrest for this triggered a 381-day ...

Mrs. Peek told of Rosa Parks trying to integrate the public library. Black children often were not able to complete assignments as they were not allowed to check out a copy of the prescribed book ...

Here are 12 things we need to understand about her, drawn from my book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (available in its original form and in a young-adult version, with Brandy Colbert).

Meanwhile, counties in that state have banned a book about Rosa Parks, among other policies controlling what books children in public schools have access to. Joy Reid and her panel discuss. Feb. 1 ...

A Florida textbook publisher removed all references to race from a lesson about Rosa Parks, the Alabama civil rights hero, in an effort to get its books approved by a Florida committee, The New ...

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus after work in Montgomery, Alabama, and sat down. As the bus filled with passengers, the driver demanded the 42-year-old seamstress move further ...

5 Things History Books Didn't Tell Us About Rosa Parks' Famous Arrest Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you probably ...