Staffers at the Rosa Parks Transit Center were gifted 500 jackets from the Pistons that bus drivers from the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) will wear on Feb. 4, Parks’ birthday.

In December 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks, 42, was told by a Montgomery bus driver to give up her seat for a white man to sit, as the rules required.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Fifty-five years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a ...

Individual tickets, tables, ... Montgomery is a living history book full of locations connected to Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other civil rights tourism spots.

On a recent day this month, our cameras found him handing out free bus tickets here at the Rosa Parks Transit Center Downtown, something he’s done for years.

A bus ticket machine that's had an out-of-order sign on it for months. These are a few of the issues on display at Detroit's Rosa Parks Transit Center, which opened in 2009 at a cost of $22.5 million.

In 1982, Rosa Parks visited Dallas to present the 17th annual Rosa Parks Award, and she sat down with The News to discuss that famous bus ride in 1955. Read the original May 6, 1982 , article ...

And on what would have been her 100th birthday we are remembering Rosa Parks and the bus boycott that she began. We're asking for your memories of that time. This is Michael in Shelbyville, Kentucky.

The Real Rosa Parks Story Is Better Than ... Ala., on Dec. 1, 1955, after she famously refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger ... giving out hundreds of tickets — and ...

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 ...