Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...

The Ford Fireworks show along the Detroit River will begin around 10 p.m. Monday, with hundreds of thousands of people expected to gather for views framed by the downtown Detroit skyline. This event ...

Festivities extend beyond Montgomery to other areas like Prattville with parades and celebrations in North Highland Park. Juneteenth was already a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in ...

The Civil Rights-era ‘She Who Dared,’ likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in Chicago.

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.

It doesn’t work . . . until it does. The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott In 1954, finding many of her peers too “complacent,” Rosa Parks started a Youth Council for Montgomery’s NAACP. She was ...

Tue 2/18 @ 7PM Many key events from the Civil Rights era are legendary, from Rosa Parks’ bus sit-in to Bloody Sunday at Selma, Alabama’s Pettis Bridge when police attacked peaceful marchers on their ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...

Students from Ascot Avenue Elementary School in South L.A. were invited to L.A. Union Station to celebrate Transit Equity Day, and ride an L.A. Metro Rosa Parks-era style bus, on Friday, Feb. 2 ...

Free fare on Portland public transit in honor of Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks by: Aimee Plante Posted: Feb 4, 2025 / 08:58 AM PST Updated: Feb 4, 2025 / 12:15 PM PST ...

Riders won't need to purchase tickets or tap Hop cards to board. Parks gained national prominence in December 1955 when she refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery, Alabama.

"Rosa Parks' husband had a car and she took the bus just to be messy," one Threads user wrote. Social media posts spreading the claim were sometimes accompanied by a picture of Rosa and Raymond ...