Rosa Parks was about more than a bus, and a seat Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of celebrated civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Feb. 3, 2013, 3:02 PM EST ...

The same was true for Parks, who endured great financial and psychological hardship after the bus incident. In this Feb. 24, 1956, file photo, Rosa Parks arrives at circuit court to be arraigned ...

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 ...

The museum displays the 1948 GM bus on which, in Montgomery City, Alabama, in December 1955, black seamstress Rosa Parks took a seat near the front and refused to move to the back.

Claudette Colvin was a 15-year-old student from Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to yield her bus seat to a white passenger. But she has been largely forgotten in civil rights history.

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died at the age of 92. It was 50 years ago this December that she refused to relinquish her seat to a white man aboard a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery ...

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 ...

On December 1, 1955, a black seamstress named Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...