Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, AL. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a teacher. As a young girl she attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. Miss White's ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist whose quiet courage ignited one of the most significant protests in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Often called "the Mother ...

Timeline : events in the life of Rosa Parks -- The journey begins -- Coming of age in Montgomery -- Seeking equality -- Growing activism -- Foundations of the boycott -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- ...

You know Rosa Parks as the civil rights icon who sparked the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama by refusing to give up her seat to a white man in 1955. You can picture her face, somber and ...

Rosa Parks is considered one of the most influential and important activists of the civil rights movement, having broken segregation laws when she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man.

Host Melissa Harris-Perry kicked off Black History Month with an illuminating conversation about the late Rosa Parks before her 100th birthday, revealing facts that prove her life was much more than ...

The world was a very different place back when Montgomery, Alabama's Maxwell Air Force Base was known as Maxwell Field. The Air Force was still a part of the U.S. Army Air Corps, the United States ...

The effort eventually led to a Supreme Court decision that ended segregation on transportation in the United States. Born Rosa Louise McCauley on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Ala., she was the daughter ...