WASHINGTON - Charlene Corruthers understood little, at age 9, about why she had to eat chicken liver instead of hamburger at a Jackson, Miss., restaurant. Nor did the required seating in the "colored" ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Hundreds of people slowly filed past the body of civil rights icon Rosa Parks on Saturday, just miles from the downtown street where she made history by refusing to give up her seat ...

In hushed reverence, Americans paid tribute Monday to Rosa Parks, with more than 30,000 filing silently by her casket in the Capitol Rotunda and a military honor guard saluting the woman whose defiant ...

WASHINGTON — More than 30,000 Americans streamed through the U.S. Capitol Rotunda to pay tribute today to Rosa Parks, filing by her casket in hushed awe of the woman whose defiant act on a city bus ...

WASHINGTON — In hushed reverence, Americans paid tribute Monday to Rosa Parks, with more than 30,000 filing silently by her casket in the Capitol Rotunda and a military honor guard saluting the woman ...

WASHINGTON - In hushed reverence, Americans paid tribute Monday to Rosa Parks, with more than 30,000 filing silently by her casket. "I rejoice that my country recognizes that this woman changed the ...

(Detroit, Michigan-AP) Nov. 1, 2005 - A Detroit woman who kept her kids out of school Tuesday to visit Rosa Parks' casket says, "She was our queen mother, and we have to honor her." Angela Gilliam and ...

DETROIT - A church packed with 4,000 mourners celebrated the life of Rosa Parks Wednesday in an impassioned, song-filled funeral, with a crowd of notables giving thanks for the humble woman whose ...

WASHINGTON – More than 30,000 Americans streamed through the U.S. Capitol Rotunda to pay tribute today to Rosa Parks, filing by her casket in hushed awe of the woman whose defiant act on a city bus ...