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.

The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and ...

Rosa Parks wasn’t born a household name ... Parks had firsthand experience with the harsh realities of Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the South. Growing up in this environment ...

She did this by: helping black people to register to vote in elections, which was very difficult under the Jim Crow laws campaigning ... Some people, such as Rosa Parks, lost their job for ...

Rosa Parks would have turned 112 this weekend. Twenty years after her death, her legacy in the face of Jim Crow laws and her ...

Today is the 62nd anniversary of when Rosa Parks refused to give ... Rights Movement" in the 1950s, Parks fought against segregation and the Jim Crow Laws of the time. Take a look at her history ...