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 ...

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

As head of the Union County NAACP, Williams organized armed squads ... He was buried in Monroe, where civil rights icon Rosa Parks eulogized him at his funeral.

Voluntary job: State National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) secretary ... Some people, such as Rosa Parks, lost their job for supporting the boycott.