Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice movements today.

“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned ... adding that the civil rights activist had chronic tonsillitis as a child that often waylaid her.

Rosa Parks’ mugshot is one of the most famous images of the civil rights movement. In it, Parks holds number 7053, looking both calm and defiant. But though the Rose Parks mugshot has been ...

This week, we’ll discuss civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in 1913 in a small city in Alabama, a state in America’s Deep South. The region has a long history of ...

Rosa Parks wrote those words ... chapter in the struggle for American civil rights. The sentence appears in previously unseen notes in an archive of Parks’ personal papers that opened earlier ...

5 Surprising Facts About Rosa Parks Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous ...

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 ...

Lakeland city commissioners will likely vote May 5 on a resolution to rename Webster Park after the late Civil Rights ...

"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 ...

Gray represented prominent civil rights leaders like King, Rosa Parks and John Lewis throughout the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, allowing activists to intentionally leverage mass arrests and ...

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 ...

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 ...