Rosa Parks

“Remembering and honoring #RosaParks on her 109th birthday. #BlackHistoryMonth #WomenSoulOfTheMovement”

Rosa Parks is often portrayed as an accidental figure in civil rights, which is just plain wrong, argues Dr Brooke Magnanti, on the hundredth anniversary of the activist's birth.

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Rosa Parks circa 1950 “Our non-violent protest has proven to all that no intelligent right-thinking person is satisfied with less than human rights that are enjoyed by all people.” Every once in a while, one hears a right-wing demagogue in the U.S. compare themselves to Rosa Parks in defense of an unpopular position. Not only … Continue reading "Beyond the Bus: The Story of Rosa Parks’ Lifetime of Civil Rights Activism"

In honor of what would be Rosa Parks' 104th birthday, here are some lesser known facts about her life before the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Women are missing from history books not because they haven't contributed to society- but because men wrote them. Women have been the true inventors of

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others" -Rosa Parks