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 -- ...

Historian Kenneth C. Davis, author of the Don't Know Much About book series, has written a biography for young readers titled Don't Know Much About Rosa Parks. The book tests general knowledge about ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ended legal segregation on Montgomery's city buses on Nov. 13, 1956, and a boycott of city buses officially ended just over a month later. An estimated 40,000 Black bus riders ...

DAVID TERESHCHUK, correspondent: When Rosa Parks died just over seven years ago, prominent national figures celebrated her as the ordinary citizen who herself achieved fame by transforming the cause ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and congressional leaders unveiled a full-length statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in the Capitol on Wednesday, paying tribute to a figure whose name became ...

Every American is familiar with the legend of Rosa Parks. In school, many of us were taught what is essentially Rosa Parks, the myth: the sanitized-for-public-consumption story about the meek ...

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 ...