Visitors to the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University can learn about her decades of activism before and after that fateful ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The incident sparked a yearlong boycott of ...

It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America's Civil Rights Movement. On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Sixty-five years ago, a civil rights icon’s rise began with five paragraphs buried on the bottom of Page 9 of The Montgomery Advertiser: “Negro jailed here for ‘overlooking’ bus ...

Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began ...

What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil ...

Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery buses ...

Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery buses ...