National City Lines bus No. 2857 on which Rosa Parks rode that day is now on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. WikiMedia Commons The photo below is usually labeled as Parks being ...

AP Photo/picture alliance On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who worked as a seamstress in a department store in Montgomery, Alabama, boarded a city bus after work and took a seat. She was 42 years ...

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th ... On December 1, 1955, Parks famously refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, igniting the 13-month Montgomery Bus ...

After Parks died in 2005, Metro said it refurbished a bus similar to the one she protested on, with the exterior of the bus reading "It All Started on a Bus: Rosa Parks, 1913-2005; The Mother of ...

There’s a seat reserved for Rosa Parks on every ... previously dedicated seats to Parks on buses to celebrate her birthday, but the transit agency added them to trains this year. Parks sparked the ...

standing by the statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Another statue commemorates Rosa Parks, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat and move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama ...