Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

She stood up for her rights by staying seated: Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. And it was the year that two white men brutally ...

Rev. Milford L. Griner, president and founder of Gainesville’s Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee (RPQCC), also took the ...

But things amped up dramatically in 1955 — when the Montgomery bus boycott brought both Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. into the spotlight, and the murder of Emmett Till was seared into ...

Rosa Parks worked in Conyers’ office from 1965 until her retirement in 1988. The same year King was assassinated, his widow, Coretta Scott King, established the Martin Luther King Jr. Center ...

using an obscene flier of late legendary freedom fighters MLK and Rosa Parks. The AI-doctored photos featured the heads of Parks and MLK transposed on the bodies of scantily-clad lovers engaging ...

Rosa Parks was actively involved in civil rights work long before the famous bus incident. She joined the NAACP in 1943. McDonalds Black History Month - 360Wise ...

Metro Denver residents can ride Regional Transportation District buses and trains for free on Tuesday as part of Transit ...

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday ... One of his campaign workers was civil rights icon Rosa Parks, arrested nearly a decade prior in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing ...