"Good Trouble Lives On" was described by organizers as "a national day of action to respond to the attacks on our civil and ...

The Rosa Parks Collection of 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs are available to researchers at the Library of Congress on Feb. 4 and a portion will be open to the public on March 2. By Ruth ...

Object Details Author Theoharis, Jeanne Subject Parks, Rosa 1913-2005 Contents National honor, public mythology : the passing of Rosa Parks -- "A life history of being rebellious" : the early years of ...

Rosa Parks made a positive change in this society by, finally, turning true to her convictions. Thank you, Rosa, for being a true role model, because your efforts made way for positive change in ...

On the 50th anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” march that erupted in police violence on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, President Barack Obama praised the figures of a civil rights era that he ...

GRTC Transit buses will carry a special tribute Thursday to the woman whose stand against segregation earned her a special place in the canon of the civil rights movement.

Demonstrators filled Santa Rosa streets and mall corridors Wednesday in a fast-moving protest against statewide immigration raids — with more rallies on the way.

In a March 20, 1965, executive order, Lyndon Johnson cited a recent federal court order approving plans for activists to march from Selma to Montgomery on Highway 80. It would be the third ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

20 Photos of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Marches March 7 marks the 50th anniversary of the civil rights movement's "Bloody Sunday." ...