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Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a civil rights activist best known for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa Contains magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, brochures, commemorative stamps, calendars, and various printed ephemera either pertaining to or collected by Parks. Arranged alphabetically by type of material or topic. Rosa Parks Papers: Printed Matter, 1947-2005; By topic; Religion; Church, Forrest, Bringing God Home: A Traveler's Contributor: Parks, Rosa Date: 1947-00-00 Selected items from the Rosa Parks collection, documenting the life, work, and legacy of civil rights legend Rosa Parks. You’re in luck: Yesterday, the Library of Congress announced that its Rosa Parks collection is finally online. As Smart News reported last year, the collection, which consists of over 10,000 WASHINGTON — Newly released papers offer a look at the feisty spirit of the seemingly mild Rosa Parks, who helped set off one of the seminal events of the civil rights movement, the Montgomery The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. With a few clicks of the mouse, it’s now possible to view thousands of the civil rights icon’s papers and photographs. Updated: August 31, 2018 | Original: March 1, 2016. Born and raised in Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested that day for violating a city law requiring racial segregation of public buses. On the city buses of Montgomery, Alabama, the front 10 seats were permanently reserved for white passengers. Rosa Parks wrote those words just a short time after her famous refusal, 60 years ago this month, to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, a protest that galvanized a yearlong The campaign lasted from December 5, 1955—the Monday after Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a EDITOR'S NOTE: Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955 -- the start of the Montgomery bus boycott -- got relatively little attention, initially. On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement. On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking a social movement. Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, and died at th Rosa Parks was no accidental activist CBS News MoneyWatch correspondent Kelly O'Grady joins to unpack the challenges of reaching a deal, with the law set to take effect on Jan. 19. Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions Bus in which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, currently in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. / THF134576 Accompanying The Henry Ford’s acquisition of the Rosa Parks bus in 2001 was a binder of newspaper clippings recounting the events of Rosa Parks’s arrest and the ensuing bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Children will learn about Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott, and the achievements of the civil rights movement. National Social Science Standards: time, continuity, and change; power, authority, and governance CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts reports that from the Alabama statehouse, But many are more familiar with "Rosa Parks," the hit song by the hip-hop group OutKast, than her full story, said Clipping found in Detroit Free Press published in Detroit, Michigan on 8/31/1994. Newspaper headlines of Rosa Parks being attacked in her home in 1994
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