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Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...
On December 1, 1955, civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. Now 64 years to the date, the Milwaukee Country Transit System honors the Presidential Medal ...
Leaders celebrated the RTA's milestone of reaching 1 million riders in 1 fiscal year and announced a new campaign.
Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor ...
As part of Part II of the three-part series from reporter Meghan Volcy on the intersection of Black history and the pursuit ...
Her arrest in that incident helped spark the Montgomery bus boycott. After the boycott, Rosa and Raymond Parks moved to Hampton, Virginia, and then settled in Detroit. He died in 1977. She died in ...
Posted: June 20, 2025 | Last updated: June 20, 2025 A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a local historic district.
On Monday, June 23, 2025, the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County officially expanded its Community Connector microtransit service to this historic neighborhood—bringing equity ...