Friends, colleagues remember civil rights icon Rosa Parks in Detroit
For many people in Detroit, Rosa Parks was a neighbor, mentor, colleague and friend.
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For many people in Detroit, Rosa Parks was a neighbor, mentor, colleague and friend.
Rosa Parks is best known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, an act that helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.
Feb. 4, 1913, is the birthday of Rosa Parks, known as the "mother" of the Civil Rights movement. She lived the latter part of her life in Detroit. The bus she sat on during the 1955 incident that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama is now in the collection of the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Dearborn.
The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district designation.
A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a local historic district.
A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a local historic district.
The Library of Congress released Rosa Parks' "Featherlite Pancakes" recipe, which was written on the back of a bank envelope from the First Independence National Bank of Detroit.
A dedication ceremony is set for Monday, June 5, at the Grand River Station in Detroit, naming it the Rosa Louise McCauley Parks Post Office.
The museum will be showcasing a film called "The Rebellious life of Mrs. Parks." It's a sold out public screening highlighting her life that included a stop in the Motor City.
The Detroit Institute of Arts is hosting a screening of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, " followed by a discussion.
Parks lived in the tiny house in Detroit with her brother and his family as she struggled to make a new life for herself in the northern U.S. after receiving death threats following the bus protest.
A public transit system in Michigan is marking Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white man more than 60 years ago by keeping one seat open on every bus in its fleet.
The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South amid death threats is going up for auction with a minimum bid of $1 million.
The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South will be offered at auction after being turned into a work of art and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean twice.
The house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after she fled the South will be displayed in Rhode Island for at least a month after all because several groups have provided money.
The Detroit house where Rosa Parks sought refuge after fleeing the South will be briefly displayed in Rhode Island this weekend.
The house was set to be demolished in Detroit before Parks' niece bought it for $500 and donated it to artist Ryan Mendoza.
The house has been up in Berlin less than a year, but after violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the artist said it's now clear to him that Parks' house needs to return soon to the U.S.
A photo of President Barack Obama sitting in the bus in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat has been selected to represent Michigan in state-by-state, online photo album.
Could we soon see Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks on the United States $20 bill?
Two years after her action led black people to boycott Montgomery buses, Parks and her husband, Raymond, moved to Detroit.
Cities across the nation will be celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend but some hold a more historical significance than others.
Hundreds of items from the civil rights figure Rosa Parks that were long kept hidden away in a warehouse will have a new home at the Library of Congress for the next 10 years.
Officials say the civil rights pioneer's former Alabama home was stripped for copper scrap.
A years-long legal fight between Parks' heirs and her friends led to the memorabilia being removed from her Detroit home and offered up to the highest bidder.
