Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you ...

I Want Freedom Now!' about Colvin's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks.

But the day before, Parks’ activist friends had gotten busy organizing a boycott of Montgomery’s bus system. The day after Parks’ conviction, the city’s Black community carpooled ...

On a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s Book of the Day podcast, Jonathan Eig, author of the biography King: A Life, spoke about the late leader, and noted that he didn’t have plans to become one when he joined ...

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement.

Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913?

May I share some things with you about King that you won’t read in history books? First ... about King in the early days of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Carr was one of the organizers of the ...