Paid job: Worked in a department store as a seamstress. Voluntary job: State National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) secretary. She worked to promote civil rights before ...

Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her seat ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the most significant events in the Civil Rights Movement. Led by Martin Luther King Jr. and other local leaders ...

MONTGOMERY, ALA. — Mineola Dozier Smith closed her eyes tightly and rocked back in her chair. Slowly, the images started coming back to her — the crowded bus, the hostile driver, the quiet ...

Largely recognized for her leading role in the bus boycott of 1955, Rosa Parks was an enduring activist for the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout her numerous decades of service, Parks left behind ...

What will our church do, if people in our congregation and community lose some or all of their Medicaid funding?” ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Montgomery County is the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement where, even behind bars, history has been made. The original mugshots of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr ...

The Civil Rights Movement challenged segregation on public transport. In 1955, activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white man. Her arrest led to ...

If you look closely, you can see a twinkle in her eye. The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice ...