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

The Trump administration is trying to dilute history by removing the parts he finds offensive. This leads to a far worse danger than facing history.

While the history of Black Americans and transportation justice began with forced movement in slavery and attempts at ...

President Donald Trump has instructed the National Park Service to scrub any language he would deem negative from signs and presentations visitors encounter at national parks and historic sites.

In 1955, Parks sparked what became known as the Montgomery bus boycott when she refused to move from her seat, defying a Jim Crow law aimed at reinforcing racial segregation.

Rosa Parks National Day of Courage is on Feb. 4, the civil rights activist's birthday. These 12 songs honor her inspiring life and valiance.

December 1, 1955 is the day when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery Alabama to a man, in defiance of Jim Crow segregation laws. On Sunday, Knoxville Area Transit honored ...

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Instead of being honored for her act (almost 34 years before the similar one done by Rosa Parks), Smith was rejected from society and died of typhoid fever only four years later at the age of 21.

Decades later, records show, that determination was displayed again when she held meetings in a church on Long Island in 2006 as she sought to start the Brookhaven Rosa Parks Democratic Association.