The hedgerows and roadsides around my house are currently overflowing with sprays of fragrant white flowers borne upon thorny arching branches. When I first encountered this plant, the multiflora rose ...
Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man ignited the American civil rights movement. Because she played a leading role in the Montgomery bus boycott, she is called the ‘mother of the civil rights movement.’
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott that partially ended racial segregation. Read about her birth, accomplishments, and more.
Eventually, Rosa was elected secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). By the time Parks boarded the bus in 1955, she was an established organizer and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama.
Roses are woody, deciduous, perennial shrubs or vines in the rose family (Rosaceae). They are native to the temperate and subtropical Northern Hemisphere, including North America, Europe and Asia, and grow 1 to 8 feet tall and 2 to 6 feet wide depending upon the cultivar, species, or hybrid, of which there are a great many.
"Rosa", a song by Magín Díaz, recorded by Los Soneros de Gamero and Irene Martínez in 1983 (original recording by Sexteto Habanero Godínez titled "Rosa, qué linda eres")
Rosa Parks occupies an iconic status in the civil rights movement after she refused to vacate a seat on a bus in favor of a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks sees the energy of young people as a real force for change. It is among her most treasured themes of human priorities as she speaks to young people of all ages at schools, colleges, and national organizations around the world.