Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was a Yogi: ‘She was often taking care of herself’
The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged ...
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Civil rights icon Rosa Parks born in Tuskegee, Alabama
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 ...
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Who was Rosa Parks?
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 ...
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Marking Martin Luther King Jr.’s Chicago
Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...
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Mineola Dozier Smith, 94, recalls witnessing…
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 ...
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Rosa Parks
The life-sized bronze sculpture of the congressman joins statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in ... pushed back against segregation nine months before Rosa Parks' landmark protest ...