The event falls during Black History Month, which is also the birth month of Rosa Parks.

PAINESVILLE, Ohio -- If you spot an empty front seat on a Laketran bus next week, don’t be shy. It’s meant to make you stop and think. Laketran and Geauga Transit are marking Black History Month by ...

We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to her and to everyone who led or participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, writes SJ Morrison.

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 ...

This week and next week, a sign will be placed in the front seat of each bus commemorating Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger.

Decades after her act of defiance, Rosa Parks galvanized a cadre of activists to protest their own conditions and, though the scope of her legacy for them is still coming into focus, it remains just ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - SporTran is reserving seats for Rosa Parks on all its buses to mark the 70th anniversary of her refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala. Parks sat on a bus seat in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Claudette Colvin, who as a teenager was arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, ...

WASHINGTON — A seat on all Metro buses and trains will be reserved in honor of Rosa Parks on Wednesday. The honor comes on what would have been the civil rights pioneer's 113th birthday. "To ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA) honored the legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks on Wednesday by showcasing a tribute bus. (Capital Area Transportation ...