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DETROIT -- There's something Sheila McCauley Keys wants you to know about her auntie, Rosa Parks. "We want people to know the woman behind the iconic figure," Keys says, in a conversation from her ...
Sixty-eight years after Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a Montgomery bus, history is repeating itself in the scariest way.
Rosa Parks collecting NAACP membership dues of $2, likely during a trip to Los Angeles in 1956. Photograph by McLain's Photo Service. Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development/Library ...
Rosa Parks took a historic stand against racial segregation when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1, 1955. The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement ...
Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind yoga that connect the body and the mind.
62 years ago, actvist Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her civil disobedience helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement. February 4th, Parks ...
This new effort is entitled Rosa.Scripted by Charlie Kessler and Hamid Torabpour, Rosa will chronicle the first 24-hours as they unfold after the arrest of Parks on December 1, 1955. The project ...
But the new exhibit, “Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words,” shows, among other things, the inner woman, marked by the plight of African Americans from an early age, determined to fight, yet buffeted ...
Rosa Parks and Sally Ride are joining an impressive list of famous females who have been made into Barbies. The two women, who both played profound roles in history, are being added to the brand's ...