“She was not a stranger to activism and civil rights,” Madeline Burkhardt, adult education coordinator at The Rosa Parks Museum and Library, tells Mental Floss. Parks and her husband Raymond ...

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 smiles during a ceremony where she received the ...

Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon ... Parks moved to Detroit later in life with her husband and died at the age of 92 in 2005. Throughout Black History Month, WVTM 13 is ...

Summerford it was Rosa Parks' bus. He kept it in a field, and after he passed away, his daughter Vivian and her husband inherited it. At the time, they knew it was supposedly Parks' bus ...

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