The Knoxville Area Transit will have one open seat on every bus on Sunday, Dec. 1, in honor of the civil rights leader.

She worked to promote civil rights before the Montgomery bus boycott. She did this by: helping black people to register to vote in elections, which was very difficult under the Jim Crow laws ...

Madison's bill looks to institute an additional $5 license tax and registration fee on motor vehicles to raise funds for the ...

Paul Stephenson, who has died aged 87, played a pivotal role in the 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott, an event that helped to pave ...

Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks refusing to give up their seats on buses when white people demanded them, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott and the banning of segregated buses in Alabama.

24, 2005. Take a look back at the history of the civil rights pioneer and her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Iconic civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee ...

A view common among scholars, activists and the general public holds that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because violent attacks against peaceful Black protesters mobilized white public opinion ...

were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's First Baptist Church was the site of the May 21 "siege" where ...

were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's First Baptist Church was the site of the May 21 "siege" where ...

The bus boycott and one-man pub sit-in that he led in the mid-1960s helped pave the way for a law outlawing discrimination in ...