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2 days ago · The crucial activism of Rosa Parks, a Martin Luther King Jr. colleague and an active local officer in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Rev. King Solomon Dupont, respectively a leading layperson and a pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; and Dupont’s protégé, Baptist minister C. K. Steele ...
2 days ago · Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist before her famous 1955 bus arrest in Montgomery. Her refusal to give up her seat sparked the Montgomery bus boycott and ignited the civil rights movement.
4 days ago · The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks' politics and years of activism.
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5 days ago · MONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WIAT) — The legacies of Helen Keller and Rosa Parks will be on display in bronze at the Alabama State Capitol, thanks to the efforts of a state lawmaker. Rep. Laura Hall...
3 days ago · The diagram below shows where Rosa Parks sat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955. At the time, the first ten seats on Montgomery buses were reserved for white passengers only. Parks was sitting in the eleventh row.
5 days ago · Statues of Helen Keller and Rosa Parks are being added to the Alabama Capitol grounds.
