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Parks had just finished up at the department store where she worked as a seamstress. She walked to the bus stop and boarded ...
The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...
Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...
Two people were shot and injured in downtown Grand Rapids overnight, police say. It happened at Rosa Parks Circle. The Grand ...
Rosa Parks was a radical, civil right activist who spent years fighting for justice and she knew exactly what she was doing. In fact, she wasn’t even the first black woman to refuse to give up ...
Two people were shot Friday morning in the area of Rosa Parks Circle. Officers were called for a large group of cars driving ...
Rosa Parks took a historic stand against racial segregation when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. on Dec. 1, 1955. The "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement ...
On March 2, 1955, a black, 15-year-old girl boarded a Montgomery, Ala. city bus, and when told to surrender her seat to a white passenger, refused. That teenager, Claudette Colvin, became the ...
Rosa Parks is best remembered as the African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. It was 1955 in the segregated South and the start of the Montgomery bus boycott.
Officers were called to Rosa Parks Circle at about 2 a.m. Friday, July 4, following reports of a large group and vehicles ...
DETROIT -- There's something Sheila McCauley Keys wants you to know about her auntie, Rosa Parks. "We want people to know the woman behind the iconic figure," Keys says, in a conversation from her ...