The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged ... oppose segregation. Parks was not an “accidental activist,” according ...

This week, we’ll discuss civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in 1913 in a small city in Alabama, a state in America’s Deep South. The region has a long history of ...

Parks died on October 24, 2005, but her “disobedience” represents how ordinary people can inspire extraordinary change. A booking photo of American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks ...

Themes: Rosa Parks (1913 ... in to what became known as the Civil Rights Movement - a movement that demanded the same rights for all people. IMAGE 9: Rosa Parks became an important figurehead ...

Rosa Parks wrote those words ... chapter in the struggle for American civil rights. The sentence appears in previously unseen notes in an archive of Parks’ personal papers that opened earlier ...

Rosa Parks is reclaiming her status as a bona fide American hero. The simple act of refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955 symbolically sparked the civil rights movement and ...

The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks ... to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his civil rights work. Image caption, Martin ...

The now Teal candidate chimed in to argue prominent civil rights activist Rosa Parks and the suffragettes also “broke the law”. A screenshot from a 2013 social media exchange shows Ms Smith ...