Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...
There are many tenacious individuals in Elaine Weiss' "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Award-winning filmmaker James Jones of Greenville has written and directed a new ...
Like many Meadville residents, Sarah Roncolato had driven past the historical marker outside Second District Elementary School on South Main Street too many times to count, even stopping to read it ...
Economic boycotts have long been a tool of resistance. At the turn of the 19th century, the English boycotted sugar produced by enslaved people, dropping demand and opening the market for Indian sugar ...
When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...
“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very ... including discussions on the use of nonviolent resistance to oppose segregation. Parks was not an “accidental activist ...
If you look closely, you can see a twinkle in her eye. The Library of Congress image, taken in Detroit in 1957, shows the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks engaged in the holistic practice of yoga, ...