Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.

But things amped up dramatically in 1955 — when the Montgomery bus boycott brought both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. into the spotlight, and the murder of Emmett Till was seared into ...

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

Rev. Milford L. Griner, president and founder of Gainesville’s Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee (RPQCC), also took the ...

Metro Denver residents can ride Regional Transportation District buses and trains for free on Tuesday as part of Transit ...

Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday ... during Black History Month—alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Harriet Tubman—her story is one we think we ...

Rosa Parks worked in Conyers’ office from 1965 until her retirement in 1988. The same year King was assassinated, his widow, Coretta Scott King, established the Martin Luther King Jr. Center ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday ... One of his campaign workers was civil rights icon Rosa Parks, arrested nearly a decade prior in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing ...