In the segregated South, African Americans were denied equality in the workplace, a chance for a decent education and the right to visit restaurants and use restrooms that white people also used. In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Decades after her act of defiance, Rosa Parks galvanized a cadre of activists to protest their own conditions and, though the ...

PAINESVILLE, Ohio -- A Laketran bus rolling through Painesville and along Mentor Avenue on Friday morning will carry more than passengers. It will carry stories. Laketran, alongside the NAACP of Lake ...

Inside this bus on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a soft-spoken African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man, challenging existing segregation laws. (Hand-out, The Henry Ford ...

PAINESVILLE, Ohio -- If you spot an empty front seat on a Laketran bus next week, don’t be shy. It’s meant to make you stop and think. Laketran and Geauga Transit are marking Black History Month by ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The City of Albuquerque will honor Rosa Parks with a special tribute on Albuquerque Rapid Transit buses on Wednesday. Feb. 4 is Transit Equity Day and Rosa Parks’ birthday.

What are the lessons from the Montgomery bus boycott launched 70 years ago this month? The boycott, which sparked the civil rights movement, began after the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give ...

THE TURNSTILES ARE OPEN AND THE TICKET MACHINES ARE EMPTY. THAT’S BECAUSE ON THIS DAY, EVERYONE RIDES FOR FREE. BECAUSE OF ROSA PARKS STOOD UP AND GOT US, YOU KNOW, CIVIL RIGHTS AND SHE REFUSED TO ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The City of Albuquerque will honor Rosa Parks with a special tribute on Albuquerque Rapid Transit buses ...