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 ...

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

Also targeted for disposal is the Alabama bus station pivotal to the civil rights movement that now serves as the Freedom Rides Museum in Montgomery. The Rosa Parks building at 985 Michigan Ave.

Eight Places You Need to Visit and Understand Chicago’s Black Freedom Struggle   Go to Montgomery, Alabama today and markers ...

Segregation is illegal in the US. But President Trump's administration is removing anything that benefits people of specific ...

The Montgomery Bus Station, which houses the historic Freedom ... of civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta and Rosa Parks in Detroit, according to The Associated Press.

While working on the lower register of her voice with New York City singer Paul Reese, she was first turned on to folk music.

The GSA said it manages a real estate portfolio ... parking facility. The Rosa Parks Federal Building was named for the activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama ...

Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man led to organized ... However, discrimination persisted in hiring, wages, and real estate, with many white families ...

The boycott was promoted, if somewhat scantily, by an organization called The People's Union USA, which describes itself as "the first real ... Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her ...