Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

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The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

She was a civil rights pioneer who exposed racial injustice and embodied liberty. Her legacy defines the true spirit of July ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved more than $1.8 million in aid for individual Tennesseans affected by ...

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

Santa Rosa School District Superintendent Karen Barber was re-elected to a second term on Tuesday. With all 41 precincts reporting, Barber won with 16,710 votes or 49.23 percent of the ballots cast.

On December 1, 1955, civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Now 64 years to the date, the Milwaukee Country Transit System honors the Presidential Medal ...

The first passenger seat in each bus will be off limits, marked with a commemorative sign for Rosa Parks, who was arrested after refusing to give up her seat for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955 ...

R osa Parks transformed American history with her quiet defiance. On December 1, 1955, her refusal to give up her bus seat in ...

California officials say a black bear with a history of confronting humans and breaking into homes was euthanized this week ...

A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil ...