Rosa Parks
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Remembering Rosa Parks: A Civil Rights Icon and Black Women’s Suffrage Champion
In October 2005, Rosa Parks died of natural causes, and the world mourned a civil rights icon. Yet most Americans…
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Rev. Joseph Lowery, Civil Rights Icon, Dies at 98
Rev. Joseph E. Lowery, a witty preacher who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Martin Luther King Jr. and…
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Library of Congress Exhibition Pays Tribute to ‘Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words’
A new exhibition at the Library of Congress is titled and reveals the real "Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words."
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Rosa Parks Statue Long Overdue
Nice to read that Alabama is memorializing Rosa Parks, 64 years after she refused to give up her seat to…
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Alabama Unveils Rosa Parks Statue on 64th Anniversary of Saying ‘No’
A new statue of the pioneering civil rights leader Rosa Parks has recently been dedicated in the state of Alabama's…
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Today’s True Icons
Women like Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks and the likes aren't considered icons to me, they are bigger and more…
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STEPHEN: Honor Rosa Parks’ Legacy by Supporting Public Transit
Feb. 4, 2019, marks the 106th birthday of visionary leader Rosa Parks, affectionately known as the "Mother of the Civil…
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Brown U. Nixes Display of Rosa Parks House Amid Contention
The Detroit house where civil right activist Rosa Parks is said to have lived after moving from the South is…
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Recy Taylor, Victim of 1944 Gang Rape, Dies at 97
Recy Taylor, the young mother and sharecropper who spearheaded an anti-rape activism movement in the Jim Crow South after being…
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THE RELIGION CORNER: Women’s History Month Celebrates Us!
African-American women are often portrayed by media as pregnant, promiscuous, poverty-stricken, welfare cases or prostitutes. How do we continue to…
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