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A letter that Rosa Parks wrote in remembrance of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. nearly a decade after his death is up for sale.
Quotes from civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks have been invoked in the last week during protests in cities around the country that erupted after the death of an unarmed ...
How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Yellowing court records from the arrests of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the dawn of the modern civil rights era are being preserved and digitized after ...
Rosa Parks wrote a letter, detailing her thoughts about Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., to a Mr. Kessler. The letter, dated Oct. 6, 1981, is available on the website Moments in Time, at a price of ...
Florida writer Brad Meltzer’s books on Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. were part of the 200 books by or about people of color banned by an all white York PA school board.
MIAMI — When South Florida writer Brad Meltzer learned that a Pennsylvania school board had banned his books “I am Rosa Parks” and “I am Martin Luther King, Jr.,” he k… ...
(RNS) In the 1960 letter, the civil rights leader tells Parks that "kind and encouraging words" from her and others sustained him when foes of racial equality harassed or tried to intimidate him.
America Together Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, MLK Jr. and other famous figures to remember during Black History Month Here are Black Americans who have made enormous contributions to the United States ...
Court records from the arrests of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the dawn of the modern civil rights era are being preserved after being discovered in an Alabama courthouse.