The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

Rosa Parks and E.D. Nixon (L), the former president of the Alabama NAACP, arrived at court in Montgomery, Ala. on March 19, 1956, for the trial in the racial bus boycott. The Day of Pilgrimage ...

Rosa Parks was actively involved in civil rights work long before the famous bus incident. She joined the NAACP in 1943. McDonalds Black History Month - 360Wise ...

Laketran and Geauga Transit, in partnership with the NAACP of Lake County, have continued recognizing the life and legacy of Rosa Parks — the civil rights activist who sparked the Montgomery Bus ...

Rosa Parks, age 42, was commuting home from her ... she was also the secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP and an adviser to the organization’s youth council, where she helped young ...

Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913?

On Transit Equity Day, TheRide is honoring Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each bus with a sign commemorating her ...

She worked with the NAACP on other civil rights cases ... In her 1992 autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story, she wrote: “I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the ...

Rev. Milford L. Griner, president and founder of Gainesville’s Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee (RPQCC), also took the ...

The first seat on every bus will be reserved in honor of Rosa Parks and her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement, from ...