An immediate result of her act of defiance was that she lost her job and began to receive death threats ... In 1998, various US states introduced Rosa Parks Days -- some on December 1, the ...

Terri Sewell, D-Ala., Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, and Shomari Figures, D-Ala. introduced legislation to make Rosa Parks Day a federal holiday. The Rosa Parks Day Act would designate Dec. 1 as a federal ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday officially designated Feb. 4 as Rosa Parks Day in Massachusetts, on what would have been the civil rights leader’s 112th birthday. Legislators in ...

It's a wonderful day and let us be thankful we have reached this point and we will go farther from now to greater things. Thank you!" Today, Rosa Parks is remembered as an ordinary woman who took ...

Rosa Louise McCauley ... The 381-day city bus boycott that followed launched similar nonviolent protests and demonstrations throughout the United States. Parks stood before some 7,500 Yakima ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice of yoga, lying on her stomach and pulling her feet ...