Rosa Parks wrote the recipe on the back of a bank ... Her funeral service was held at a Detroit church, and she was buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit. "A seven-hour funeral service ...

We’ve all been taught about Rosa Parks. We’ve seen the picture of her sitting placidly on the bus looking out the window, or maybe the statue of her in the US Capitol, where she is seated ...

That handwriting on the back of a First Independence National Bank of Detroit envelope belongs to one of the founding members of the Civil Rights Movement: Rosa Parks. Manuscript Specialist ...

The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the ...