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On the Bus with Rosa Parks is a book of poems by Rita Dove. [1] Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". [2]
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist.From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. ...
By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER and JESSE J. HOLLAND DETROIT (AP) - Hundreds of items that belonged to civil rights icon Rosa Parks and have been sitting unseen for years in a New York warehouse were sold to ...
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.
Manuscript Specialist Adrienne Cannon tells me that the Rosa Parks Papers collection was gifted to the Library of Congress in 2016 by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Kept in a controlled ...
In February 1987, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development was established. [4] Parks' Barber License is in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress. [5] In 2021, the Rosa and Raymond Parks Flat in Detroit (where they lived from 1961 to 1988) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [20]
Rita Dove, On the Bus with Rosa Parks (Norton); a New York Times "notable book of the year" Beth Gylys, Bodies that Hum (Silverfish Review Press); winner of the Gerald Cable Book Award; Geoffrey Hill, The Triumph of Love (Houghton Mifflin); a New York Times "notable book of the year" John Hollander, Figurehead and Other Poems; Fanny Howe, Forged
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks is a 2002 American short documentary film directed by Robert Houston and produced by Robert Hudson about the 1955/56 Montgomery bus boycott led by Rosa Parks. [1] [2] [3]