Claudette Colvin's arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat led to the Supreme Court case that ended bus segregation, yet ...

The Paducah-McCracken County NAACP is hosting the 2026 Rosa Parks: Power of One Banquet today, Saturday, March 21, featuring ...

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 ...

U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty and other central Ohio community leaders commemorated the 20-year anniversary of Ohio becoming the first state to have a day to memorialize Rosa Parks, the late Civil Rights ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UH defensive back Alvin Williamson Jr. is related to late civil rights icon Rosa Parks on his father's side, a fact he notes in ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful conclusion a ...

A history of America's civil rights movement traces the pivotal influence of sexual violence that victimized African American women for centuries, revealing Rosa Parks's contributions as an anti-rape ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her ...

TAMPA, Fla. - Long before the Montgomery bus boycott made Rosa Parks a household name, a 23-year-old laundress in Tampa named Hattie Wright staged her own act of defiance on a streetcar—a move that ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...