The Rosa and Raymond Parks Flat was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021, but has never been designated as a local historic district. The house was built in 1917.

We all know about civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who on Dec. 1, 1955, defiantly refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white passenger as the Jim Crow laws at the time decreed.

Recurring names included Rowling, civil rights activist Rosa Parks, singer Taylor Swift and the term "mum". The artwork was officially put on display in November.

Grace Zhang, a Jericho eighth-grader, earned second place in ARTEFFECT, a national competition held by the Lowell Milken Center that recognizes unsung heroes ...

The late activist C. DeLores Tucker once called Height an icon to all black women. "I call Rosa Parks the mother of the civil-rights movement," Tucker said in 1997. "Dorothy Height is the queen." ...

Carlos accepts his role as an icon and a pioneer, but refuses to believe it makes him different or more significant in spirit ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A guilty verdict tonight for the man charged in the murder of Baton Rouge civil rights leader Sadie Roberts-Joseph. “Martin Luther King paraphrased someone once, and he ...

The API failed to deliver the resource. Nearly six years after the murder of Baton Rouge civil rights activist Sadie Roberts-Joseph, the man accused of killing her is finally on trial.

Buc-ee's first Virginia location has opened off Interstate 81 in Rockingham County, boasting 120 fuel pumps, souvenirs and ...

Stuart Milk, nephew of gay rights activist Harvey Milk, center, tours the University at Albany campus on Oct. 25, 2018, in Albany. The U.S. Navy is planning to rename several ships that were named ...

Raymond Rogers Wilkinson, who died at 69 in 1993, headed the Civil Rights Movement in Roanoke, leading the fight for the closure of the Washington Park dump, which environmentally affected ...