DETROIT -- There's something Sheila McCauley Keys wants you to know about her auntie, Rosa Parks. "We want people to know the woman behind the iconic figure," Keys says, in a conversation from her ...

The Parks family didn't have a car until then, according to Jeanne Theoharis, professor of political science at Brooklyn College and author of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks." ...

She's on a national tour promoting "Our Auntie Rosa: The Family of Rosa Parks Remembers Her Life and Lessons," (Penguin, $24.95).

Parks left all of her assets to the nonprofit Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development, which she founded in 1987 with her friend and caregiver, Elaine Steele.

Rosa Parks is best remembered as the African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. It was 1955 in the segregated South and the start of the Montgomery bus boycott.

Her family says Parks stayed in her brother's home with 17 other relatives. Arlan Ettinger, of Guernsey's auctioneers, said the house was not much to look at but is a "national treasure" for what ...

Family members of Rosa Parks are calling out embattled New York Republican Congressman George Santos, who tried to liken himself to the late civil rights pioneer and her legacy. During President ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South will be offered at auction after being turned into a work of art and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean twice.

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks bravely refused to let a white man have her bus seat, which was a major moment in the fight for civil rights.To continue the fight toward ending discrimination and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South amid death threats is scheduled for auction next week with a minimum bid of $1 million.

FILE - In this April 1, 2018 file photo, Cheryl Galloway, of Providence, R.I., uses a mobile phone to take a photo with family members in front of the rebuilt house of Rosa Parks at the WaterFire ...