Rosa Parks
US President Barack Obama returns to the White House February 27, 2013 in Washington, DC. President Obama returned following a ceremony on Capitol Hill to unveil a statue of American civil rights era icon Rosa Parks.
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You might as well tell Rosa Parks that she’s welcome in the back of the bus
They don’t see this as a case of criminality. They see it as a civil rights case, as a frontal attack on their community. The feeling I get here on a daily basis must be what it was like to be a member of Martin Luther King Jr.’s church following the case of Rosa Parks. People always ask: ‘What is the latest from the courthouse?’
The defendant’s comparison of himself to Rosa Parks and those soldiers who fought in the American Revolution is simply obsceneMore quotes »
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Rosa Parks statue unveiled at Capitol
of Parks in the Capitol an "incredible honor" for Parks, "I worry about putting this history in the past when the actual Rosa Parks was working on and calling on us to continue to work on racial injustice."Parks has been honored previously in Washington with Read more »
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Rosa Parks
Born on February 4th, 1913 Rosa Louise McCauley was born to James McCauley and Leona Edwards. In 1939 she married a barber named Raymond Parks changing her name to Rosa Parks. He was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo 5/21/13 from EssayClub.com Read more »
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See the artists coming to Festival of the Arts' 2013 Art Sales Tents
Where: Downtown Grand Rapids from Calder Plaza south on Ottawa Avenue to Monroe Center NW, west on Monroe Center to Rosa Parks Circle The 44th annual celebration of arts and cultural around Alexander Calder’s stabile “La Grande Vitesse” opens June 7 with from MLive.com Read more »
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On Religion: Could Griner’s Announcement That She’s Lesbian Be a Game Changer at Baylor?
LM Otero/Associated Press Brittney Griner, the center on Baylor’s national championship women’s basketball team in 2012, was the first pick in the recent W.N.B.A. draft. From the day in 1983 when he graduated cum laude from Baylor University , Tim Smith from The New York Times Read more »
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Annual police memorial for fallen West Michigan officers: 10 a.m. at Rosa Parks Circle
Your weather is now set to . You can change this setting at any time. Want to set your local edition? Select your location for more focused local news coverage when you visit mlive. Don't worry. You can change this setting at any time to another local ed from MLive.com Read more »
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Possibly the best senior quote ever
You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Someone's bound to give you gold for that. Of course it's not funny, that's why it was posted here. It was funny until I saw the quote was from Rosa Parks, at which point I did the same conclusion from Reddit Read more »
