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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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 ...

Rosa Parks wasn’t a docile seamstress who just sat at the front of a bus in 1955. She’d been the leader of the Montgomery, Ala., NAACP’s youth division and worked as an activist for years.