Mary Jamila Dozier-Jones was only 8 years old when she started the Montgomery Gospel Trio with Minnie Hendricks-McKents and ...

The Montgomery Bus Boycott came in response to the 1955 arrest of Rosa Parks when she decided to sit in the whites only front ...

Michigan graduating high school seniors are invited to apply for the scholarship that honors the values of civil rights ...

A New Yorker transplanted to the Midwest, John Schwarz, originated the People’s Union Economic Blackout set for Friday that ...

At a press conference earlier this month, Reps. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, and Shomari Figures, D-Ala. introduced legislation to make Rosa Parks Day a federal holiday. The Rosa Parks ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful ...

A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa Parks did. On Transit Equity Day on Tuesday, the Ann Arbor Area ...

and that's what Rosa Parks did. On Transit Equity Day on Tuesday, the Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority is honoring her pivotal act of defiance that ignited the Montgomery bus boycott by ...

Montgomery desegregated its city buses the next day. The boycott lasted 382 days. National City Lines bus No. 2857 on which Rosa Parks rode that day is now on display at the Henry Ford Museum in ...

Cummings had maintained a scrapbook of newspaper articles during the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott. Next to articles describing the arrest of Rosa Parks, he wrote "#2857" and "Blake/#2857." ...

Rosa Parks arrives at circuit court to be arraigned in the Montgomery bus boycott on Feb. 24, 1956 in Montgomery, Ala. The boycott started on Dec. 5, 1955 when Parks was fined for refusing to move ...