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"Rosa Parks" is a song by the hip hop duo Outkast. It was released as the second single from their album Aquemini (1998), and was that album's most successful single. The song's title comes from the civil rights movement activist Rosa Parks .
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave.
Share these messages from the Civil Rights icon on Rosa Parks Day or anytime you need a dose of inspiration! ... 2005, at 92, she became the first woman to lay in honor in the U.S. Capitol rotunda ...
Hawkins again paid final tribute to an African-American legend when she was requested in 2005 to sing at the funeral service of civil rights activist Rosa Parks. Hawkins was also part of the Rosa Parks tribute recording "Something Inside So Strong" from A Celebration of Quiet Strength , featuring other gospel artists such as Vanessa Bell ...
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Aquemini (/ ə ˈ k w ɛ m ɪ ˌ n aɪ /) is the third studio album by the American hip hop duo Outkast.It was released on September 29, 1998, by LaFace Records and Arista Records.The title is a portmanteau of the two performers' Zodiac signs: Aquarius and Gemini (André 3000), which is indicative of the album's recurring theme of the differing personalities of the two members.
60 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white man in Alabama, knowingly violating her city's racial segregation laws.
Parks v. LaFace Records, 329 F.3d 437 (6th Cir. 2003), was a lawsuit filed by attorney Gregory J Reed in March 1999 on Rosa Parks' behalf against American hip-hop duo Outkast and LaFace Records, claiming that the group had illegally used Parks' name without her permission for the song "Rosa Parks", the most successful radio single of Outkast's 1998 album Aquemini.