Laketran and Geauga Transit reserve front bus seats to honor Rosa Parks, encouraging riders to reflect during Black History ...

Claudette Colvin, widely considered an unsung hero of the American civil rights movement, has died at age 86. “To us, she was more than a historical figure. She was the heart of our family, wise, ...

For decades, Colvin was an unsung hero despite refusing to surrender her seat nearly 10 months before Rosa Parks’s famous act of defiance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin: she was considered too immature and feisty to become a constitutional test case, so the middle-aged, ...

It's been 70 years since Rosa Parks made the brave decision to stay seated onboard a Montgomery bus. Parks' refusal sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which led to the end of bus segregation and ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Monday, Dec. 1, at 6:06 p.m. will mark exactly 70 years to the minute that Rosa Parks made the historic decision to refuse to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her quiet ...

Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of a bus touched off the Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama. Dallas Area Rapid Transit on Monday commemorated her ...

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956. She was among some 100 people charged with violating segregation laws. Parks, refusal to move to the back of a ...

CU Boulder historian Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders delineates misperceptions surrounding ‘the mother of the Civil Rights Movement’ and the Montgomery Bus Boycott while highlighting Parks’ enduring legacy ...