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Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...
The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...
Walk through Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail, from Montgomery to Selma, and experience the landmarks that shaped America’s path ...
Rosa Parks' former home in Detroit has earned a local historic designation. Police are continuing investigation of a shooting on a DDOT bus Tuesday. Weather and other top stories.
When we reflect on the trajectory of history, one undeniable truth surfaces: women have played a pivotal role in shaping our ...
For oldhead bus riders like me, Better Bus means redrawing our mental maps so we can relearn how to reach the places we’re already going. Until then, here’s a story about the Z bus, which is called ...
Curator Karen Haas says Parks felt it important to convey to Life ’s readers the full range of African-American progress. Here, Husband and Wife, Sunday Morning, Detroit, Michigan, 1950.
The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...