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A Citilink bus adorned with unique artwork paying tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been on the streets of Fort Wayne for only a few weeks, and it’s already turning heads. The ...
Saturday's celebration is toned down a little due to virus restrictions, but Montgomery's Rosa Parks Museum is moving forward to celebrate the civil rights icon's 108th birthday.
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., in this Feb. 22, 1956 file photo, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1 ...
FLINT, Michigan -- Rosa Parks became the mother of the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. bronze statue depicts Parks in a standing position ...
Don’t look for the $60,000-plus bronze statue commissioned to honor civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks in the downtown Flint bus station that bears her name. It’s there. But almost two years ...
Pushing for library integration. The cost to the bus company was far greater, with a boycott that lasted 381 days. At the time of her arrest, she was already actively involved in the NAACP working ...
In 1957, two years after her famous refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, Rosa Parks fled to Detroit to escape death threats. There, she and her husband lived for some time in ...