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Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...
The "mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005 from natural causes at her Detroit home at age 92.
Get Reintroduced to Rosa Parks as a New Archive Reveals the Woman Behind the Boycott The Rosa Parks collection adds depth to the story of the civil rights heroine ...
This is the surprising story of Rosa Parks' mugshot, which was taken in February 1956 after she and dozens of civil rights leaders were arrested.
LANCASTER — 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 ...
When Rosa Parks refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, police in Montgomery, Alabama arrested her. While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus ...
Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913?
An image of Parks and her husband, Raymond Parks, in front of a white car often accompanies this claim.
Rosa Parks' Husband Did Not Own a Car An image of Parks and her husband, Raymond Parks, in front of a white car often accompanies this claim.
It was 2 p.m. on a recent Sunday in the western Colorado town of Paonia, population 1,500, not an ideal time to gather a crowd to meet the famous Rosa Parks, the woman who kicked ...