Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, AL. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a teacher. As a young girl she attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. Miss White's ...

In her autobiography, Parks refuted assertions that her refusal to give up her seat was the result of her being physically tired that day. She said, “No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” ...

While not unthinkable, peanut butter is an unconventional pancake ingredient. But what makes these peanut butter pancakes noteworthy isn’t the recipe itself, but who wrote it down and presumably made ...

On Saturday, 63 years after Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to change seats on the Cleveland Avenue bus, a replica of the city transport will sit parked outside the Troy University Rosa Parks ...

Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come" rang out in the air on the night of Dec. 1 in downtown Montgomery as a crowd of about 40 people gathered for a unity walk at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial ...

Rosa Parks helps Xavier, Yadina and Brad learn a valuable lesson: everyone should be treated equally. / Thurgood Marshall helps Xavier with a tough pie problem by showing him how to be fair to ...

Kerry Washington is honoring Rosa Parks during Black History Month. On Monday the “Scandal” actress shared an Instagram post in which she recreated Parks’ famous 1955 mugshot photo split with the real ...

*Kerry Washington is honoring Rosa Parks by recreating the civil rights activist’s famous 1955 mugshot. “A lot of people think that Rosa’s activism started with her refusing to give up her seat on the ...

Poet Carole Boston Weatherford reads her poem December 1, 1955: Before Rosa Altered History in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott. Weatherford teaches creative writing ...

The rapper shared a snippet of the song on what would have been Rosa Park's 107th birthday Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018.