Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.
On every NFTA bus, a sign now marks a seat for Rosa Parks. It was placed there on Transit Equity Day, which falls on her ...
Rosa Parks was actively involved in civil rights work long before the famous bus incident. She joined the NAACP in 1943. McDonalds Black History Month - 360Wise ...
Some have tried to trivialize Parks’ actions as her simply wanting to rest her feet after a hard day’s work. For example ... In her 1992 autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story, she wrote ...
OBSERVER Senior Staff Writer - From a statue in the U.S. Capitol to reserved seats on public transit, Sacramento historian Michael Harris works tirelessly to honor Rosa Parks.
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Laketran and Geauga Transit will honor the life of civil rights icon Rosa Parks this week by reserving the front seat on their buses. From Feb. 3 through Feb. 8 ...
(WSFA) - People in Montgomery gathered to celebrate what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th ... rights act passed in 1964, the work does not stop there. Parks’ niece, Sheila McCauley Keys ...
The first Rosa Parks Day in Massachusetts was celebrated Tuesday evening at the Bulfinch Meetinghouse, providing a dose of comfort during a time of great political turmoil that centers ...
Gov. Kim Driscoll said about Parks in a statement Tuesday. “Her actions sparked a revolution that put a long-overdue end to segregation in our country. Every day, we work to honor Rosa Parks ...
But each of us is capable of at least some act of kindness and honor that might work in favor of the world ... state in the country to recognize Rosa Parks’ profound contribution to the civil ...
Gov. Maura Healey designated Feb. 4 in Massachusetts as Rosa Parks Day, in celebration of the civil rights activist’s legacy of advocating for racial equality and change. Lawmakers filed a bill ...
Sewell wants Dec. 1 to become “Rosa Parks Day” to commemorate her 1955 ... performance, and hard work and not, under any circumstances, DEI-related factors, goals, policies, mandates, or ...