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 ...

Since at least 2024, social media users have claimed that Raymond Parks, the husband of civil rights/ bus boycott activist Rosa Parks, had a car. One post on X from May 2025 that repeated the ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...

Don’t erase Rosa Parks, Tulsa massacre from history’s ... a version of U.S. history text materials that made ... According to the American Library Association, over 1,200 book challenges ...

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 ...

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 ...