Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

I didn’t buy this house to sell for a profit. I wanted to make this my home,” said Ethel R. Lawrence, who fended off ...

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

The Girl Scouts of Coastal GA, the National Council of Negro Women and the Georgia State NAACP named me " A Woman Of Distinction ... The AME Evangelical Minister's Union presented me the "Rosa Parks ...

Rosa Parks was one of the first women in Montgomery to join the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and had served as its secretary for years. She had learned about ...

Thank you for the enjoyable article recalling Rosa Parks’ visit to Yakima. There was, for me, one glaring omission. Many ...