On what would be the 108th birthday of Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, riders and activists in New Jersey said people of color need ...

Rosa Parks, 42, ignited the Civil Rights Movement and the end of segregation in Alabama when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

Rosa Parks is an icon whose legacy goes beyond the Dec. 1, 1955, arrest. On Oct. 24, 2005, Parks died in Detroit. In her life, she was honored with the Martin Luther King Jr. Award and by the ...

According to the Henry Ford museum website, the Rosa Parks bus project received a whopping $205,000 through the Save America’s Treasures Program to help assist the restoration.