Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist, born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She became known as the “mother of ...

In February 1957, the Alabama Court of Appeals upheld her 1955 bus arrest conviction for violating segregation rules that ...

The King Center — built next to Ebenezer — was founded by King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, shortly after his assassination ...

In the introduction to his new book John K. Bollard sets the scene for a momentous event which took place seventy years ago: ...

Reflecting on the catalyst for civil justice, Frank Smith Jr. credits Rosa Parks' strength for igniting the Civil Rights ...

The Henry Ford Museum will offer free admission and free parking on December 1 to honor the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ ...

Riders will be able to use all the transit agency’s services for free, including all buses and VIA Link shuttles, in ...

Seventy years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, you can honor her memory on a Knoxville bus.

Gene Herrick, a retired Associated Press photographer who covered the Korean War and is known for his iconic images of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and the trial of the killers of Emmett Till in ...

RICH CREEK, Va. — Gene Herrick, an Associated Press photographer who chronicled the early years of the civil rights movement and the Korean War during the 1950s, died Friday. He was 97. Herrick’s ...