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Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...
Robert and Jean Graetz Symposium on Human Rights and Reconciliation puts light on Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision.
In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, ...
At the federal level under the current administration, LGBTQ+ people are facing an aggressive, coordinated effort to censor ...
What will our church do, if people in our congregation and community lose some or all of their Medicaid funding?” ...
Parks' arrest led to a year-long bus boycott by Montgomery's Black residents, and eventually the Supreme Court ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional. On Feb. 23, 1956, a New York Times ...
Jr. were among the leaders of the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott organized in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks. In 1961, Abernathy's First Baptist Church was the site of the May 21 "siege ...
Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks refusing to give up their seats on buses when white people demanded them, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott and the banning of segregated buses in Alabama.