Rosa Parks’s legacy goes far beyond refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955. Her dedication to civil rights activism after the Montgomery Bus Boycott is explored in The Rebellious Life of Mrs.
Eight years after Parks’ death, on February 27, 2013, a statue of Parks was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. At the unveiling ceremony that day, President Obama said, “Today, Parks has ...
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956. She was among some 100 people charged with violating segregation laws. Parks, refusal to move to the back of a ...