The story of Rosa Parks has long been misrepresented and sanitized. Now it's also under threat of erasure. We correct the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Yellowing court records from the arrests of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and others at the dawn of the modern civil rights era are being preserved and digitized after ...

Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller will be unveiled Friday on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol. The monuments honoring ...

Civil rights leader Fred Gray called for a second civil rights movement to address ongoing injustices faced by Black Americans. He urged continued action, echoing the late Congressman John Lewis' call ...

In 1955 in the US, radio stations were playing Bill Haley's hit "Rock Around the Clock" around the clock, Billy Wilder's ...

Eight years after Parks' death, on February 27, 2013, her statue was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom places Kirk in the company of Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is just as much a Detroit holiday as it is a federal one. Created after overwhelming approval in Congress and being signed into a law by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, MLK ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, a 42 year-old Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, ...

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