Rosa Parks Through the Years

Civil rights icon Rosa Parks waves to the audience before receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor at a ceremony, Nov. 28, 1999, in Detroit. Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Ala., in December of 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. The Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest honor that the U.S. government con bestow to an individual. (Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images)