Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...
We use buses every day to go to school or into town ... There, when a woman called Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, a bus journey became very important. Rosa's refusal was a protest ...
Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913? She went to an industrial school ... up during segregation, she ...
The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged ... resistance to oppose segregation. Parks was not an “accidental activist ...
Smith, now 94, was reminiscing back to that day 60 years ago when she witnessed Rosa Parks refuse to ... Court decision that outlawed segregation on buses. Parks herself became a civil rights ...