More than a decade before Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, she was a sexual assault ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

The boycott’s ultimate success came through the courts. In November 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision to strike down segregation on public buses, and Browder v. Gayle became ...

The story of Rosa Parks has long been misrepresented and sanitized. Now it's also under threat of erasure. We correct the ...

A Blackout Black Friday isn’t a boycott. It is a benediction — a reminder that our worth is not measured by what we buy but by what we build together. It’s proof that we are still a nation capable of ...

The monuments honoring the two famed native Alabamians will be the first statues of women on the lawn of the Alabama Capitol.

Eight years after Parks' death, on February 27, 2013, her statue was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Rosa Parks and her impact on Alabama and Civil Rights history will be symbolized with a statue on the State Capitol grounds ...

Statues of Helen Keller and Rosa Parks were unveiled Friday morning on the Alabama Capitol grounds in Montgomery, making them ...