U.S. senator says it’s time to put a woman on the $20 bill
CONCORD, N.H. — The first woman to serve as both governor and U.S. senator is backing a campaign to put a female face on the $20 bill.
Rosa Parks’ letters and photographs reveal a lifelong warrior for civil rights
The Rosa Parks Collection of 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs are available to researchers at the Library of Congress on Feb. 4 and a portion will be open to the public on March 2.
Rosa Parks’ belongings, potentially worth millions, sit in NYC warehouse
NEW YORK -- At a time when interest in civil rights memorabilia is rekindled, a lifetime's worth of Rosa Parks' belongings - among them her Presidential Medal of Freedom - sits in a New York warehouse, unseen and unsold.
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Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Immortalized With Statue at U.S. Capitol
Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Immortalized With Statue at U.S. Capitol…
Known for Single Act of Defiance, Rosa Parks Trained for Life Full of Activism…
On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of a Memphis hotel, leaving the civil rights movement he led to forge its own path. A panel of analysts discuss King's complex legacy…
Following a reprise of the documentary "Eyes on the Prize" that chronicled the civil rights movement in America, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond, who was part of the movement and the narrator of the series, discusses the series' significance after 20…
Essayist Roger Rosenblatt looks at the legacy of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks' quiet, yet defiant refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Ala. bus, sparked one of the longest and most influential civil rights protests in the nation's history.
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