The bus driver wanted Rosa to give her seat to a ... we will go farther from now to greater things. Thank you!" Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as an ordinary woman who took a stand to help ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

Rosa Parks’ defiance of a bus driver’s order to move to the back sparked the 1955 Montgomery 13-month bus boycott, which slashed income from fares and led to the Supreme Court decision that ...

Often overshadowed by the more widely-known story of Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin's bravery on March 2, 1955, was a powerful testament to the spirit of resistance and the pursuit of justice. "I'm a ...

An article detailing baseball icon Jackie Robinson's military history was removed from the Department of Defense's website ...

Have a driver’s license Have access to reliable transportation Acquire adequate housing for the summer The Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation, founded in 1980 by The Detroit News and the Detroit ...

When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...

On March 8, 1857, women textile workers staged a march to advocate for equal rights and better working conditions. Today ...

“I got involved in Jefferson Street in part because I had a driver’s license,” Washington ... located at 2025 Rosa L. Parks Blvd. But Karen Coffee, current vice president of the Jefferson ...

Some 75 years later, across the Atlantic, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat ... in the trial of a ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa ... bus system, a pivotal event in the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks took ...