“Part of my thinking about Rosa Parks is that this was a very impassioned ... Before her arrest, Parks was active in the Montgomery branch of the NAACP, even becoming its secretary, and in ...

In fact it had been decades in the making, and the NAACP had been there all along. ADRIANE LENTZ-SMITH, HISTORIAN: Rosa Parks wasn’t just a civilian who happened into a bus boycott. Rosa Parks ...

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

Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to live with her husband, Raymond Parks. Raymond was a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP ...

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National ...

The Rosa Parks Committee raised $15,000 to bring her ... Parks first became involved with the NAACP in the 1940s and eventually participated in several high-profile civil rights campaigns.

"Often times we hear people say today that the civil rights movement started when Rosa Parks sat on the bus in ... hinged around his activities with the NAACP and The Progressive Voter's League ...