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.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story widely since Dec. 1, 1955, when she was arrested and jailed for refusing ...

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 ...

The Laurel County African American Heritage Center hosted a day of festivities Saturday, bringing the community together to celebrate history and unity. Particularly, residents joined together to ...

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 ...

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.

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.