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 ...

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 -- ...

Historian Kenneth C. Davis, author of the Don't Know Much About book series, has written a biography for young readers titled Don't Know Much About Rosa Parks. The book tests general knowledge about ...

Julie Dash’s critically acclaimed biographical drama film, The Rosa Parks Story chronicles the titular figure’s struggles against racism and segregation in the United States. Parks was a Civil Rights ...

The NewsHour airs excerpts from Monday's memorial service in Washington honoring the late civil rights heroine Rosa Parks. Well, you told me I done what you told me to do I have done what she told me ...

A deeper look at Rosa Parks’ decades of organizing, resistance, and political struggle beyond her iconic 1955 arrest. Rosa Parks’ story begins long before the world heard her name. Born in Tuskegee in ...

When Rosa Parks was a little girl in rural Alabama, she would stay up at night, keeping watch with her grandfather as he stood guard with a shotgun against marauding members of the Ku Klux Klan.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” Rosa Parks delivered a timeless message of courage. Her words reflect the moral strength behind her historic refusal to give up ...