Ms. Parks returned to Highlander in 1957 when Dr. King gave closing remarks at a conference that marked the school’s 25th anniversary. In 1958, another prominent civil rights figure, John Lewis ...

The social justice and leadership research center educated many of the Civil Rights Movement’s most important figures including John Lewis and Rosa Parks. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a keynote ...

Rosa Parks, John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr. had ties to the center Highlander is known as a place where Civil Rights icons such as Rosa Parks and John Lewis received training. Parks ...

Highlander is known as a place where Civil Rights icons such as Rosa Parks ... activist. Parks returned to Highlander two years later with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for the school’s ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A new sculpture honoring prominent Alabama civil rights attorney Fred Gray sits outside the Alabama State Bar Association. Gray has practiced law for nearly a century ...

Tara Campbell unlocked the front door of the Bricklayers Hall, a no-frills brick building on South Union Street in downtown Montgomery, half a mile from the white-domed Alabama Capitol. She was ...

From Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King Jr. to John Lewis and Robinson ... I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin…If I lost my chance, the Negro might lose ...

President Gerald Ford added his own touch with a burgundy color scheme and striped ... Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and labor leader and civil rights ...