*Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon made famous for her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955, is often mischaracterized as a quiet ...

This 1956 poster is just one of thousands of items of Rosa Parks' personal collection now digitized by the Library of Congress. Library of Congress Curious about the life and experiences of the woman ...

Self-care is a bit of a buzzword these days. But for Rosa Parks, it was a deliberate practice and a means of survival in her later years. Long after she refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, ...

In 1955, civil rights leader Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This led to African-Americans boycotting public transportation ...

(CNN) — If you look closely, you can see a twinkle in her eye. The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began days after Rosa ...

Yoga remained a prominent part of Parks’ life and activism. She died in 2005 in Detroit. “Parks was mindful and purposeful in her public presentation of peace work. For example, the legacy of yoga ...