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Rosa Parks

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Noun1.Rosa Parks - United States civil rights leader who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery (Alabama) and so triggered the national Civil Rights movement (born in 1913)


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Byline: The Register-Guard Bike, pedestrian detour on path starts Monday SPRINGFIELD - A detour that may affect bicyclists and pedestrians will begin Monday for the Rosa Parks Path between Q Street and Centennial Boulevard, due to Lane Transit District plans for rapid bus service.
Civil rights icon Rosa Parks is being honored by San Diego Mesa College with construction of a Metropolitan Transit System stop and surrounding memorial.
Run by the Women Stepping Out project in Butetown Pavilion over six weekends the African Education Programme culminates in a theatre production in which young people bring to life the stories of people who changed the world such as civil rights campaigners like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks as well as modern black heroes such as Sabrina and Venus Williams.
 
 
 
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