Rosa

Rosa Parks, who fought for civil rights long before the Montgomery, Ala. Bus boycott in 1955, was born on February 4, 1913.Parks joined the local NAACP chapter in December 1943 and became secretary to which her husband Raymond was already a…

A bill commemorating the parks protest is the central feature of Rapid Transit Station plaza in the West End Dallas Area in Dallas. (© Alpha Stock / Alamy)A new Rosa Parks sculpture was erected at…

Danielle McGuire, "At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power." - WORD 89.9 FMThis website uses cookies to improve your…

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