Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

Let's go to America, in 1955, to Montgomery in the southern state of Alabama. There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal ...

Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History Month; Civil Rights; justice and equality. Summary: On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, contravening ...

During the recent Champions of Diversity ceremony, Shannon Williams received the Rosa Parks Trailblazer Award ... many influential women in her life. "I am surrounded by so many courageous and ...

Williams lived in Michigan until he died of Hodgkin’s Disease in 1996 at age 71. He was buried in Monroe, where civil rights icon Rosa Parks eulogized him at his funeral.