She stood up for her rights by staying seated: Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill ...

“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned ... It was a time when there was a link between the Civil Rights Movement, Black churches and Mahatma Gandhi’s ...

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with ...

A Greenville filmmaker is working on a project to tell the story of a civil rights pioneer who foreshadowed Rosa Parks.

When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice of yoga, lying on her stomach and pulling her feet ...

“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned person ... It was a time when there was a link between the Civil Rights Movement, Black churches and Mahatma Gandhi’s ...