A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil ...

A BHS basketball coach's demand that a player cut his hair and quit a Black student organization in 1970 exposed racial ...

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a ...

As the Trump administration attempts to purge America of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Black churches have ...

Rosa Parks has been gone for nearly 20 years. Her legacy lives on, and now the City of Detroit wants to ensure her longtime ...

A local historic designation would protect the flat from demolition or major outward changes without city approval. A public hearing is planned.

The Rosa Parks collection adds depth to the story of the civil rights heroine. Skip to main content. ... In 1956, five weeks into the bus boycott, Parks lost her job, and so did her husband.

Parks, Rosa. Rosa Parks Papers: Miscellany, -2005; Automobile records and drivers licenses; 1968 to 1988. - 1988, 1968.Manuscript/Mixed Material.

According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

Traffic crashes skyrocket in 1924, Prohibition ends in 1933, Rosa Parks’ arrest sparks boycott in 1955, New Castle County school desegregation in 1993 ...

American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks (center, in dark coat and hat) rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956.