Learn about civil rights activist Rosa Parks's early life, her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and her lasting ...

Wikimedia Commons/Lizarra1 Claudette Colvin Before Rosa Parks became the face of bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was just a ...

Statues of civil rights activist Rosa Parks and disability rights activist Helen Keller are scheduled to be dedicated on the ...

Iris Rodríguez-Rosa has been appointed Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks), ...

The protests were slated to take place on Thursday, July 17, the fifth anniversary of the death of civil rights champion and ...

Crusading journalist and an­ti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett is born in Holly Springs, Miss. Wells-Bar­nett was a true militant activist. Her ed­itorials so angered Whites in the Mem­phis, ...

Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, Aretha Franklin and Miles Davis. I was struck by the number of immigrants who were listed as “American heroes.” These were people who were born in other countries and then ...

The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district designation.

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a local historic district.

The Michigan high school seniors are the latest recipients of scholarships honoring civil rights activist Rosa Parks.

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