FILE- In this Feb. 22, 1956, file photo, Rosa Parks, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus, touched off the Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement, is ...

Parks wasn’t the first Black bus rider to get arrested for not leaving a bus seat in Montgomery. Fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin did the same thing nine months earlier.

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ...

In 1943, Parks was made to get off a city bus after she put in her fare and was told to reboard through the rear door. Before she could do so, the bus roared off down the street, leaving her at ...

Rosa Parks smiles as she receives the Congressional Medal of Freedom in Detroit, Mich. Her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man 60 years ago in Montgomery, Alabama, triggered a 381-day ...

Rosa Parks is well-known for her refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Ala., in December 1955. But Parks' civil rights protest did have a precedent ...

It was announced over 20 years ago that the famous bus Rosa Parks changed history on would be auctioned off, and members of the Henry Ford Museum caught wind of the news through the Wall Street ...

Tuesday marks 60 years since Rosa Louise McCauley Parks refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala., to a white man, becoming an iconic symbol in the Civil Rights Movement.

The bus Rosa Parks made history on is at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn Michigan. ... decided he wanted to auction off the bus for Mr. and Mrs. Williams.

It was announced over 20 years ago that the famous bus Rosa Parks changed history on would be auctioned off, and members of the Henry Ford Museum caught wind of the news through the Wall Street ...