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Rosa Parks' Husband Did Not Own a Car An image of Parks and her husband, Raymond Parks, in front of a white car often accompanies this claim.
Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind yoga that connect the body and the mind.
Rosa Parks is an icon of the civil rights movement. But as historian Jeanne Theoharis recounts, she didn’t just get arrested once on a bus. Parks was a lifelong activist.
The Library of Congress released Rosa Parks' "Featherlite Pancakes" recipe, which was written on the back of a bank envelope from the First Independence National Bank of Detroit.
Sixty-eight years ago on this day, December 1 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested “for disobeying an Alabama law requiring Black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was ...
In my mind's eye, every day should be Rosa Parks Day because of who she was, what she stood for, what she believed in, and how she treated people. From the day that I met her, she was always more ...
Rosa Parks wrote the recipe on the back of a bank envelope, and it results in pancakes that live up to their "featherlite" name.
A Citilink bus adorned with unique artwork paying tribute to civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been on the streets of Fort Wayne for only a few weeks, and it’s already turning heads. The ...
Who was Rosa Parks? Meet the woman who changed the course of history The activist’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama helped fuel the Civil Rights ...
Rosa Parks famously refused to move to the back of the bus, launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But here's what you probably didn't know.
The Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University will celebrate what would have been the civil rights icon’s 110th birthday on Feb. 4 with free admission to the museum from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and a ...