Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, ...

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks, left, and Martin Luther King ... Since she no longer felt safe in Montgomery, she and her husband went to Detroit to live with Parks's brother. Parks found work as a seamstress ...