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

PostEverything How history got the Rosa Parks story wrong. The quiet seamstress we want on our $10 bill was a radical active in the Black Power movement.

ON THIS DAY: 65 years ago, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. In 1995, she spoke to @DebRobertsABC ...

Y ou probably think you know the story of Rosa Parks, the seamstress who refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala., 60 years ago—on Dec. 1, 1955—and thus galvanized the bus ...

Rosa Parks is best remembered as the African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. It was 1955 in the segregated South and the start of the Montgomery bus boycott.

Black History Month: One seat on every bus in Louisville, Kentucky, honors Rosa Parks 2. She was an activist Parks was a seamstress by trade, but was deeply active in the NAACP, working to improve ...

Rosa Parks, the department store seamstress who in a moment of quiet defiance inspired the civil rights movement, was honored on Tuesday with a Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian award ...

Parks%2C a seamstress%2C and Smith%2C an elevator operator%2C worked together at the Montgomery Fair Store; When Rosa Parks was arrested for not surrendering her seat to a white passenger on a ...

Tuesday marks 60 years since Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest on December 1, 1955 sparked the 381-day Montgomery ...

She was a seamstress whose simple and defiant act more than half a century ago galvanized a movement and propelled her into history. On Wednesday, President Obama and congressional leaders ...

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955 ...

In “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” the icon of the title expresses a hint of frustration at being defined as a seamstress who got tired. “Interviewers still only want to talk about ...