MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A new statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was dedicated in Alabama’s capital city on Sunday, the 64th anniversary of her historic refusal to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey pulled back a cloth to […]
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Found: Rosa Parks’s Arrest Warrant, and More Traces of Civil Rights History | The New York Times
When the Montgomery bus boycott electrified the struggle against segregation, it was all recorded in appeals bonds, court motions and $10 fines. A forgotten trove has turned up in a courthouse vault.
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Rosa Parks’ Life After the Bus Was No Easy Ride | History.com
Along with Parks’ many achievements, she also shared the challenges she faced along the way, including the death threats levied at her because of her work.
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TV movie pays tribute to Rosa Parks’ movement | New York Post
The film portrays the events surrounding the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted from December 1955 to December 1956.
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Rosa Parks Was My Aunt. Here’s What You Don’t Know About Her. | Shondaland
This week would’ve marked her 105th birthday — it’s time to move beyond the quiet seamstress narrative.
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Detroit House Preserves Memories of a Little-Known Part of Rosa Parks’s Life | The New York Times
When Rosa Parks stayed there in the late 1950s, the house on South Deacon Street in southwest Detroit was modest — two stories high, with white shutters and a chimney peeking from the top.
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Rosa Parks’ Snapshots: Candid Photos Of ‘The Girl On the Bus’ | Flashbak
Rosa Parks, the ‘Girl on the bus’ whose courageous act of defiance triggered the Montgomery bus boycott and fired the Civil Rights Movement in 1955, was no grandstanding celebrity.
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Rosa Parks’ Pancake Recipe Will Blow Yours Out Of The Water – Huff Post
There’s peanut butter in there.
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