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 ...

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.

Montgomery's Rosa Parks Museum launches new app. Updated: Feb. 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM CST ... Marianne Gauldin, from the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, ...

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 ...

Alabama lawmakers are also planning to add a statue of Parks to the state Capitol grounds. More: EJI's new Legacy Plaza brings art and cafe to downtown Montgomery The 2.5-acre Legacy Plaza opened ...

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 ...

Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell has introduced legislation to create a federal holiday honoring civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. Sewell wants Dec. 1 to become “Rosa Parks Day” to ...

Rosa Parks National Day of Courage is on Feb. 4, the civil rights activist's birthday. ... Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956. Source: Bettmann / Getty .

TriMet offers free rides on Sunday in honor of Rosa Parks' birthday and legacy Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. TriMet will ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- About 2,000 children marched arm-in-arm Thursday, singing "We Shall Overcome" as this once-segregated city marked the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus ...