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

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Rosa Parks seated toward the front of the bus, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images) ...

In 1955 Ms. Parks, a seamstress, refused a bus driver's demand that Blacks must sit in the back of all public buses in Montgomery, Alabama.

Some people thought one of the featured faces looked like Rosa Parks, the civil rights activist known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.

Some people thought one of the featured faces looked like Rosa Parks, the civil rights activist known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.

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Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat to a white woman in Montgomery, Ala., in March 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks. Now 82, she says that justice from the court system is overdue.

Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 26, 1956. Don Cravens / Getty Images ...

Parks' arrest ignited a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system, led by a young Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is often credited with giving rise to the modern civil rights movement.