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In December 1955, Rosa Parks’ refusal as a Black woman to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a citywide bus boycott. That protest came to a successful ...
Iconic civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala., and died on Oct. 24, 2005, from natural causes. She was 92. Take a look back at the life and legacy of Rosa ...
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 ...
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).
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 ...
Yet “her life history of being rebellious,” as she put it, is much less known, as we have grown comfortable with a Rosa Parks stripped of her politics.
Based on the bestselling biography by Jeanne Theoharis, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks seeks to expand beyond Parks’ mythology.
A trailer for "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks," a documentary about the civil rights icon due out on Peacock on Oct. 19, debuted online on Wednesday. The film is directed by Johanna ...