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Here are 12 things we need to understand about her, drawn from my book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (available in its original form and in a young-adult version, with Brandy Colbert).

Rosa Parks (1913-2005) was listed on the program for the March on Washington. Congress called her "the first lady of civil rights." After she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a ...

Parks’ arrest began the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by a young Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. If approved, Rosa Parks Day would mark the first federal holiday to honor a Black woman, or any woman ...

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a ...

Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Her courageous act is now American legend. She is a staple of elementary school curricula and was the second ...

Rosa Parks’ great-niece, Erica Thedford, currently serves on the foundation's board. “This scholarship has helped underprivileged children gain an education," Thedford said.

In “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” the icon of the title expresses a hint of frustration at being defined as a seamstress who got tired. “Interviewers still only want to talk about ...