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Learning From the Courage of the Civil Rights Movement
It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...
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Rosa Parks: Icon of the US civil rights movement
She stood up for her rights by staying seated: Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr.In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill ...
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Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was a Yogi: ‘She was often taking care of herself’
“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned ... It was a time when there was a link between the Civil Rights Movement, Black churches and Mahatma Gandhi’s ...
In a powerful new book, a hero of the Civil Rights era tells her story to children
Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with ...
TheRide buses in Ann Arbor are reserving a seat for Rosa Parks on Transit Equity Day
On Transit Equity Day, TheRide is honoring Rosa Parks by reserving a seat for her on each bus with a sign commemorating her ...
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Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was a Yogi: ‘She was often taking care of herself’
The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in March 1973, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice of yoga, lying on her stomach and pulling her feet ...
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Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was a Yogi: ‘She was often taking care of herself’
“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned person ... It was a time when there was a link between the Civil Rights Movement, Black churches and Mahatma Gandhi’s ...