Both Detroit, her home now, and Montgomery, Alabama, her home in 1955, have streets named for her
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Rosa Parks - Wikipedia  Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913  October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Her birthday, February 4, and the day she was arrested, December 1, have both become Rosa Parks ... On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus...
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What If Rosa Parks Didn't Move to the Back of the Bus - The Henry ...  Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956 ... Rosa Parks, with her flawless character, quiet strength, and moral fortitude, was seen as an ideal...
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Artist brings new beginning for Rosa Parks' Detroit home  Sep 25, 2016 ... Parks became an international civil rights icon after she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., an...
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An American artist is moving Rosa Parks's house from Detroit - Quartz  Oct 5, 2016 ... Her first home in the city, on South Deacon Street, was demolished last week. ... American civil-rights icon Rosa Parks moved from Alabama to Detroit in 1957. ... Mendoza, a 44-year-old from New York who now splits his time between ... up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955,...
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Rosa Parks - Civil Rights Activist - Biography.com  Feb 18, 2016 ... Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white ... Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus ... with a shotgun while Ku Klux Klan members marched down the street. .... and both Martin Luther King Jr.'s and E.D. Nixon's homes were...
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English-Maltese translation :: windsor :: Dictionary  Located on the southern bank of the Detroit River, opposite Detroit, Mich., ... It was known first as "the Ferry" and later as Richmond before it was renamed in 1836. ... As a member of fashionable British society, she met Edward, prince of Wales ... Population (1991) city, 191, 435; metropolitan area, 262,075. town, Windsor...
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Rosa Parks is best known for her role as a civil-rights activist, the ...  Rosa Parks #mugshot December 1 1955, she refuses to give up her seat for a white ..... a clue about the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 and 1956, .... Parks had been an active member of the local NAACP chapter since 1943 and .... On Monday, December 5, a new organization was to lead the boycott effort.
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Race and harmony: Songs tied to the March on Washington  Aug 27, 2013 ... Songs with ties to the 1963 March on Washington by Korina Lopez. 1 ... the black seamstress who refused to give up her bus seat to a white ... We Shall Overcome. ... Seeger and Joan Baez, this became a global civil rights anthem. ... Jackson also sang this hymn, composed in 1951 by Clara Ward after she...
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There've Been Enchanted Evenings Since Donna Mills Saw a ...  Jul 18, 1983 ... But don't confuse the real-life actress with her torrid TV persona. ... They maintain separate two-bedroom houseshers in Beverly Hills with a terraced ... Mills says that Holland was just the change she had wanted. ... Mills was born in Chicago as Donna Miller, the daughter of the now retired ... Your Name
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Fair Lane - Wikipedia  Fair Lane was the name of the estate of Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford and his wife Clara Ford in Dearborn, Michigan ... Landmark. Part of the estate grounds are preserved as a university nature study area. ... The estate was donated to the University of Michigan in 1957 for a new Dearborn campus. The staff's...
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Montgomery Bus Boycott - PBS  Aug 23, 2006 ... See a map of civil rights hot spots, including Montgomery, Alabama. ... seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and is arrested. ... On the night of December 5, 1955, elated at the day's success in emptying the buses, boycotters ... 26-year-old Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Because he has no...
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Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956)  The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) coordinated the boycott, and its president, ... The roots of the bus boycott began years before the arrest of Rosa Parks. ... Robinson prepared a series of leaflets at Alabama State College and...
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1000+ ideas about Rosa Parks Bus Boycott on Pinterest | Rosa ...  Rosa Parks quote: People always say that I didn't give up my seat ..... 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama when she was arrested for her refusal to give up her seat to a ..... fifty-seven years ago today, All I was doing was trying to get home from work. ... December 1, 1955 In response to the Rosa Parks incident, a bus boycott in.
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An Act of Courage, The Arrest Records of Rosa Parks | National ...  Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested that day for violating a city law requiring ... At the time of her arrest, Mrs. Parks was active in the local National Association ... serving as secretary to E.D. Nixon, president of the Montgomery chapter. ... Jr., and upheld by the United States Supreme court on November 13, 1956.
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(1955) Martin Luther King Jr., The Montgomery Bus Boycott | The ...  The Montgomery Bus Boycott speech reprinted below is one of the first major addresses ... Baptist Church in Montgomery on December 5, 1955, just four days after Mrs. ... That arrest led to the first major civil rights campaign in the Deep South in ... a bus and carried to jail and because she refused to get up to give her seat to...
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Women in Transportation: Changing America's History - Federal ...  Tubman became known as the Moses of her .... refinements, including a twist-ignition device patented ... way lighten the load of watching and responsibility .... Ida Lewis (1842-1911) ... Ida Lewis; the ship was launched in 1995 and commis- ..... woman to compete in the Indianapolis 500. Before becoming a race car driver,...
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Henry Ford Estate | Henry Ford, Ford and Staircases - Pinterest  Main Staircase of Henry Ford's Fair Lane Estate in Dearborn, Michigan ..... in Dearborn, Michigan, was the home of Henry and Clara Ford from 1915 until 1950. ..... 1863, on his family's farm in what is present-day Dearborn, Michigan. wem ..... Hearst Castle was built for publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst high on a...
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All about Alabama - Sheppard Software  Alabama State Capitol: Eric Hunt. ... Because of this, Montgomery is known as the "Cradle of the Confederacy. ... The state probably got this nickname because its Confederate troops placed ... If you want to see where the Saturn 5 rocket system, which carried the first astronauts to the moon, was created, go to Huntsville.
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Claudette Colvin - Wikipedia  Claudette Colvin is a pioneer of the African American Civil Rights Movement. On March 2, 1955 ... Three days later, the Supreme Court issued an order to Montgomery and the state of Alabama to end ... This event took place nine months before the NAACP secretary Rosa Parks was famously arrested for the same offense.
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MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT  On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks, a 40 year old black seamstress, was ... The day Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat, the NAACP knew that she was ... The black community did not use violence to protest bus segregation, they .... Rosa was asked to move out of her seat and sit in the back of the bus.
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The Story of Ann Allen - Washtenaw County Historical Society  Of her 78 years, 18 had been spent in Ann Arbor, a town named for her, between 1824 and 1844, with two years out while her husband and she were in New York City where he ... So it was that Thomas and his wife moved to Staunton. ..... that it was Elisha Rumsey who told John Allen about the possibilities in Michigan as...