The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged ... the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks took a stand for civil ...

McCauley married Raymond Parks in 1932. They lived in Montgomery, Alabama’s capital city. They were both active in the Civil Rights Movement, with Rosa Parks volunteering as a secretary for the ...

Rosa Parks is reclaiming her status as a bona fide American hero. The simple act of refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955 symbolically sparked the civil rights movement and ...

Federal authorities have arrested a suspect accused of setting fire to the Highlander Research and Education Center in ...

Rosa Parks’ letters and photographs reveal a lifelong warrior for civil rights The Rosa Parks Collection of 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs are available to researchers at the Library of ...

Marches were organised to protest against segregation…marches that grew in to what became known as the Civil ... Rights Movement - a movement that demanded the same rights for all people. Rosa ...

"Rosa Parks was not only the mother of the modern civil rights movement, she was the mother of this nation," he said. Why, he asked, would he say that when George Washington is remembered as the ...

Themes: Rosa Parks (1913 ... in to what became known as the Civil Rights Movement - a movement that demanded the same rights for all people. IMAGE 9: Rosa Parks became an important figurehead ...

Legendary attorney Fred Gray — once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — was honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association on ...

Civil rights attorney Fred Gray, 94, was honored with a bronze statue at the Alabama State Bar. Gray, who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., became the first Black president of the ...