The story of Rosa Parks has long been misrepresented and sanitized. Now it's also under threat of erasure. We correct the ...
Rosa Parks’s legacy goes far beyond refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955. Her dedication to civil rights activism after the Montgomery Bus Boycott is explored in The Rebellious Life of Mrs.
Eight years after Parks’ death, on February 27, 2013, a statue of Parks was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington. At the unveiling ceremony that day, President Obama said, “Today, Parks has ...
The monuments honoring the Alabama natives, whose advocacy helped dismantle racial segregation and promoted the rights of ...