I didn’t buy this house to sell for a profit. I wanted to make this my home,” said Ethel R. Lawrence, who fended off ...

In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give ... That protest came to a successful conclusion a year later when the Supreme Court ruled that buses had to be integrated.

The event was seen as a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement, as protests followed the killers' acquittal in court. At about the same time, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks ...

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 ...