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Politics Rep. McGovern read a book on Rosa Parks into the record to protest ‘bans’ — but Florida is pushing back The Mass. congressman was calling out GOP legislation that he fears would ...
Today, February 4, marks what would have been Rosa Parks’ 112th birthday, a moment to honor her unwavering fight for civil ...
Here are 12 things we need to understand about her, drawn from my book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (available in its original form and in a young-adult version, with Brandy Colbert).
Rosa Parks, who died Monday at the age of 92, changed history on December 1, 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. Her arrest for this triggered a 381-day ...
A Florida textbook publisher removed all references to race from a lesson about Rosa Parks, the Alabama civil rights hero, in an effort to get its books approved by a Florida committee, The New ...
Mrs. Peek told of Rosa Parks trying to integrate the public library. Black children often were not able to complete assignments as they were not allowed to check out a copy of the prescribed book ...
Based on Jeanne Theoharis' book, also titled The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the new film (surprisingly, the first full-length feature documentary devoted to this key figure of the civil ...
A Florida textbook publisher removed all references to race from a lesson about Rosa Parks, the Alabama civil rights hero, in an effort to get its books approved by a Florida committee, The New ...