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ALTADENA, Calif. — For 129 years, Black educator and activist Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark laid unsung and forgotten in an unmarked grave in Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery. She was the ...
She was the Rosa Parks of her day. 129 years ago, Black educator and activist Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark was buried in an unmarked grave in Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery and forgotten.
The ‘Rosa Parks of Concord MA,’ discovered in an unmarked grave in Altadena 129 years after her death It was recently revealed that Ellen Garrison Clark was laid to rest in Altadena’s ...
Philadelphia’s “Rosa Parks” no longer has an unmarked grave. A tombstone was dedicated Saturday for Caroline LeCount in Eden Cemetery in Collingdale.
Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...
February 4 would have been Parks’ 106th birthday. If you believe in what she did and why she did it, it is time you knew who she really was. It might blow your mind and it might make you look at ...
“Caroline LeCount was the Rosa B. Parks of Philadelphia roughly 100 years earlier and we found out there was no tombstone,” said Leo Vacarro, a history teacher at St. Joseph’s Preparatory ...
Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks died Monday at her home in Detroit at age 92. Two civil rights leaders discuss her life and legacy. It was, in a way, the most simple act imaginable: Sitting down ...
The Rosa Parks Collection of 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs are available to researchers at the Library of Congress on Feb. 4 and a portion will be open to the public on March 2. Full Episode ...