particularly in African American history, which would shape her perspectives later in life. As a young woman, Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to live with her husband, Raymond Parks.

Jackie Robinson Day? It’s going, going, almost gone. Major League Baseball officials are scared of new governmental mandates ...

Many African Americans have contributed their quota ... From Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, to Frederick Douglass, Barack Obama and others , these heroic figures are worth ...

Get to know two variations from Margaret Bond's 'Montgomery Variations', inspired by Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott that became a catalyst in the American civil rights movement.

The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged ... Then in 1964, Parks became a deaconess in the African Methodist Episcopal ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

Williams lived in Michigan until he died of Hodgkin’s Disease in 1996 at age 71. He was buried in Monroe, where civil rights icon Rosa Parks eulogized him at his funeral.

Themes: Rosa Parks (1913 - 2005); Black History Month; Civil Rights; justice and equality. The video clip is a dramatisation of Rosa Parks' bus journey on 1 December 1955 in the town of Montgomery ...