via Wkyc: A new statue was dedicated in Alabama recently to Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks. The Statue was dedicated in Alabama’s capital city on Sunday, the 64th anniversary of her historic refusal to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man. CLICK HERE to read story
getty images: Rosa Parks might be known for taking an epic stand against segregation, refusing to give up her seat to a white man in December of 1955. However, her story does not end there. After this epic moment in Civil Rights History, she lost her job as a seamstress after financial sanctions were imposed against […]
The February 10 death of Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch prompted his hometown of Detroit to reflect on the important philanthropic efforts he made to the community, WXYZ reports. For over ten years, the Detroit businessman paid the rent of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, according to a 2014 news article from Sports Business Daily. Though locally reported, […]
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott and other efforts to end segregation. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus […]
On this day in history, an ordinary woman made a courageous decision that had extraordinary results. 60 years ago, on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was on her way home from work as a department store seamstress. Her refusal, along with that of three other black passengers commanded to relinquish their seats for a white […]
Roland Martin and NewsOne Now preview the commemoration of the Million Man March and the Justice or Else rally in Washington D.C.
Rosa Parks, the mother of the civil rights movement, could be the face of the nation’s new $20 bill. She’s among the top four finalists in a grassroots voting campaign aimed at convincing the U.S. Treasury Department to put a woman on new $20 bills. “There are so few reminders in our everyday lives […]
The black-and-white photograph of Rosa Parks on the bus looks familiar. She’s staring forward, reenacting her moment in history as if preparing for a place in a grade school textbook on the civil rights movement, conservatively dressed in a hat and patterned dress, holding her handbag tightly on her lap so as not to bother […]
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”.Her birthday, February 4, and the day she was arrested, December 1, have both become Rosa Parks Day, commemorated in both […]
Hundreds of items from the civil rights figure Rosa Parks that were long kept hidden away in a warehouse will have a new home at the Library of Congress for the next 10 years. Library officials announced Tuesday night that Howard Buffett,the son of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, is loaning the entire collection to the […]
A 1960 letter from civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. to Rosa Parks went on sale Tuesday for $125,000. “It’s the only letter I’m aware of from King to Parks,” said Gary Zimet, curator at Moments in Time, which is selling the letter. The website deals in historical letters and documents, as well […]
