"I am Rosa Parks" author Brad Meltzer criticized the Central York School District for its decision to "freeze" a list of books. He believes this is a non-partisan issue and the district is "on the ...

Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, ... Essence. 5 Things History Books Didn’t Tell Us About Rosa Parks’ Famous Arrest. Story by Malaika Jabali • 1w. T oday, February ...

Library of Congress Announces New Exhibit, Book Telling Rosa Parks’ Story In Her Own Words. ... on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The book goes on to explain in more detail about segregation and how it affected Rosa Parks' life and detailed her later activism. It ends with the Supreme Court decision that buses could not ...

Long before Rosa Parks rode her way into the history books, as the African American woman who refused in 1955 to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, she was a fighter for ...

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat in a bus for a White passenger. (Gene Herrick/AP) On ...

Jeanne Theoharis is a professor of political science and the author of eleven books on the civil rights and Black Power movements including “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” and “The ...

Mrs. Peek told of Rosa Parks trying to integrate the public library. Black children often were not able to complete assignments as they were not allowed to check out a copy of the prescribed book ...

Most people know about Rosa Parks and the 1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott. Nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the same bus system.

5 Things History Books Didn't Tell Us About Rosa Parks' Famous Arrest Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you probably ...