Civil rights figure Rosa Parks poses before a painted mural in the Dexter Ave. King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery on Dec. 2, 1985. The figures at left depict Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace ...

Alabama’s Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) immortalized civil rights icon Rosa Parks with the unveiling of a new monument at the Legacy Plaza in downtown Montgomery.

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful ...

Montgomery County is the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement where, even behind bars, history has been made. That includes mugshots of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. and others still being ...

On the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest on a Montgomery bus, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell is leading an effort in Congress to make Dec. 1 a federal holiday. In a speech Friday, Sewell asked ...

The Rosa Parks statue in Montgomery’s Court Square is not what you expect from a monument. That’s why I love it. There’s no pedestal. No stage. Nothing separating the viewer from Parks. It ...

American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was 42-year-old when she refused to give up her seat, jumpstarting the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

The Inaugural Rosa Parks Junior Golf Tournament. Date: Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 2-3; Time: 9 a.m. Location: Lagoon Park, 2855 Lagoon Park Drive, Montgomery ...

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...