Beisel also explained the reason for the move from there to Detroit; it was because Parks paid a heavy price for her work in the furtherance of justice.

When Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in December 1955, she would go down in history as the symbolic “mother” of the civil rights movement.

This is the sole recipe among the approximately 10,000 documents and photographs in the collection. However, Parks wrote of cooking in a manuscript she titled “Early childhood incidents and ...