Raymond Parks, Rosa's husband, was also active in the fight for civil rights. A barber by trade, he was a member of Montgomery's NAACP, and helped fundraise for the legal defense of the Scottsboro ...

Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city bus system on December 21, 1956© Getty Images ...

The scholarship prioritizes need-based applicants, but all Michigan seniors are eligible to apply.High school seniors can apply here for the Rosa Parks scholarships by Feb. 28.

The API failed to deliver the resource. People in Montgomery gathered to celebrate what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum.

The Rosa Parks Day Act would designate Dec. 1 as a federal holiday marking Parks’ 1955 arrest in Montgomery, Alabama. She refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.