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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 ...
A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil ...
Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor ...
A BHS basketball coach's demand that a player cut his hair and quit a Black student organization in 1970 exposed racial ...
While the history of Black Americans and transportation justice began with forced movement in slavery and attempts at ...
A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a ...
As the Trump administration attempts to purge America of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Black churches have taken a central lead in fighting back, Politico reported on Thursday.
Rosa Parks wrote those words just a short time after her famous refusal, 60 years ago this month, to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, a protest that galvanized a yearlong bus ...
A claim began circulating online in early 2024 that civil rights activist Rosa Parks' husband, Raymond Parks, had a car. It's unclear where the rumor originated, but it was repeated by American ...
According to WSFA 12, the anniversary celebrations will align with the day honoring Parks, whose actions and detainment helped spark the bus boycott in 1955. On Dec. 2, a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...
While thousands of other Negroes boycotted Montgomery City Lines in protest, Mrs. Rosa Parks was fined $14 in Police Court today for disregarding a driver’s order to move to the rear of a bus last ...