There's a new effort to create a federal holiday in honor of Rosa Parks. U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell held a news conference ...

Rosa Parks is known for being a civil rights icon. But did you know that she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on Feb. 4, 1913?

“Not a single federal holiday honors a woman,” said U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio.). Beatty said designating Dec. 1 as Rosa ...

TODAY WAS RUSSELL DAY, OFFERING THOSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD A CHANCE TO DEPART ON A TARC BUS FROM THE BEECHER TERRACE COMMUNITY CENTER TO THE ROUTES 101, AFRICAN ... to honor Rosa Parks and her ...

Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell has introduced legislation to create a federal holiday honoring civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks ... the history of African Americans,” she said.

A small act can spark a movement, and that's what Rosa Parks did ... On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks, an African American woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

Transit Authority of River City will save a seat on every bus in its fleet in remembrance of Parks and her contribution ... She was the first African American chemist to be hired at Brown-Forman ...

At about the same time, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested, sparking a protest campaign that would go down in history as the Montgomery bus boycott — another key moment in ...

ATLANTA - Black History Month is a time to honor the achievements, contributions, and resilience of Black Americans, and ...

Former Georgia Representative Julian Bond and Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver once said that when Rosa Parks chose ... of Communication and African and African American Studies at Loyola ...

HE SAW AFRICAN AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS OVERLOOKED ... awareness and recognition of Black history and culture. 1955 - Rosa Parks born. Parks famously refused to give up her seat to a white man ...