(CNN) — In 1955, civil rights leader Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This led to African-Americans boycotting public ...

Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous decades of service, Parks left behind a ...

SOLEDAD: MEEK. TIRED. THE "ACCIDENTAL" MATRIARCH OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. FOR DECADES, ROSA PARKS’S LEGACY HAS BEEN AS THE WOMAN WHO REFUSED TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON A BUS TO A WHITE MAN. BUT THERE ...

The man also pleaded guilty this week to a charge of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Hezbollah. By Hannah Ziegler Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made ...