Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, AL. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a teacher. As a young girl she attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. Miss White's ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist whose quiet courage ignited one of the most significant protests in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Often called "the Mother ...

Timeline : events in the life of Rosa Parks -- The journey begins -- Coming of age in Montgomery -- Seeking equality -- Growing activism -- Foundations of the boycott -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- ...

Michele Norris talks with historian and Rosa Parks biographer Douglas Brinkley. They discuss civil rights icon Rosa Parks and her six-page handwritten account about surviving a rape attempt by a white ...

DAVID TERESHCHUK, correspondent: When Rosa Parks died just over seven years ago, prominent national figures celebrated her as the ordinary citizen who herself achieved fame by transforming the cause ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and congressional leaders unveiled a full-length statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in the Capitol on Wednesday, paying tribute to a figure whose name became ...

Rosa Parks is famous for her 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Alabama to a white man, but there's plenty about the rest of her experiences that she deliberately withheld from her ...

The effort eventually led to a Supreme Court decision that ended segregation on transportation in the United States. Born Rosa Louise McCauley on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Ala., she was the daughter ...