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Rosa Parks Day Celebrates Civil Rights Icon’s World-Changing Act Of Resistance
16 Feb 2026 16:09 GMT
… organized Sacramento’s 26th annual Rosa Parks Day with SacRT, the … with the legacy of Rosa Parks, and to impart some … and continuing her support for civil rights, economic justice, and the … She kept working.”
For Harris, Rosa Parks Day represents more than a …
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Civil rights icon Rosa Parks paid Akron a visit | Local history
15 Feb 2026 14:16 GMT
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Rosa Parks took a side trip before … .
She came to Akron.
The civil rights icon was a special guest …
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Bus for Sale: The Rosa Parks bus journey
13 Feb 2026 16:03 GMT
What became of the Rosa Parks bus? For years, the … in Bus 2857 becoming a civil rights symbol. However, because buses … as a symbol of the civil rights movement, deserved the highest recognition … post Bus for Sale: The Rosa Parks bus journey appeared first on …
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TARC saves a seat on every bus to honor Rosa Parks for Black History Month
13 Feb 2026 00:59 GMT
… to honor Rosa Parks and her contribution to the civil rights movement … of public transit and civil rights with two events at … ;Public transit and the civil rights movement share an important … our local civil rights icons and the legacy of Rosa Parks."
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Rosa Parks Scholarship deadline nears for high school seniors
12 Feb 2026 16:46 GMT
… who exemplify the values of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who sparked the Montgomery bus … awarded to students by the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation, which was started … the defining social issue when Rosa Parks took her historic stand. Describe …
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Unsung no more: Charlotte-area author honoring civil rights trailblazer Claudette Colvin
12 Feb 2026 14:36 GMT
… passenger, nine months before Rosa Parks
The author wants people … arrest came nine months before Rosa Parks’ on Dec. 1, 1955 … Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and the plaintiffs in … and memorabilia from the Civil Rights era, including images connected …
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The quiet erasure of America’s civil rights memory
11 Feb 2026 19:43 GMT
… old, nine months before Rosa Parks, Colvin refused to give … while we mourn one civil rights icon whose contributions were … the values that powered the civil rights movement. Urban League research … honest history and honor civil rights icons is not fringe. …
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Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching
16 Feb 2026 11:52 GMT
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Long before there was Rosa Parks, there was Ida B. … near Memphis, Tennessee. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 had been … and Ferdinand Barnett, a civil rights activist, lawyer and newspaper editor … an early catalyst for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Wells …
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How Alabama gives us a never-ending lesson in Black history | BRIAN LYMAN Brian Lyman
16 Feb 2026 11:38 GMT
… Alabamians. And it praised Rosa Parks, George Washington Carver and … of racism after the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. … Black Alabamians, were organizing civil rights marches. Nowhere did he … F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights. He lives in Auburn …
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Black History Month is about moral memory
16 Feb 2026 08:28 GMT
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Long before the Civil Rights Movement, abolitionists grounded … social acceptance.
The Civil Rights Movement: Nonviolence as … collective force
The Civil Rights Movement revealed the … . (Public domain image)
Rosa Parks’ resistance reflected years of …