Patricia Cornwall, the Karen shown on a viral video attacking another passenger on a Delta flight, compared herself to Rosa Parks after being told to take a seat, according to a federal complaint.

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Legislation has been introduced to make Rosa Parks Day a national holiday.

Very few people know of the story of Claudette Colvin during the time of segregation. When Claudette was 15 years old, born September 5, 1939, she reused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat for a white person, nine months before Rosa Parks did the very same thing. Many […]

Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.

A Statue of Rosa Parks was unveiled in Montgomery, Alabama’s state capital, on the 64th anniversary of her historic refusal to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. The memorial to the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement” is just 30 feet from where the civil rights activists was believed […]

Mattel is immortalizing the Civil Rights icon because she "made the world a better place."

Lola Jones is serving up some serious #BlackGirlMagic transforming herself into the likes of Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks and Angela Davis.

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Detroit businessman Mike Ilitch offered to pay Parks' housing for as long as necessary after a 1994 burglary.

  Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end…

Most people think of Rosa Parks as the first person to refuse to give up their seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. There were actually…