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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s Closest Allies

There was a small army of people behind Dr. King, building the Civil Rights movement, these are a few of the many names.
01/14/2024

Angela Bassett Honors The Women Who Inspired Her Career Path During Glamour’s Woman Of The Year Ceremony

The actress received the Lifetime Achievement Award
11/03/2022

Adam Shakoor, Judge And Attorney Who Represented Rosa Parks, Dies

The 74-year-old was also the nation’s first-ever Muslim judge.
03/30/2022

Judge Expunges Juvenile Record Of Claudette Colvin Who Refused To Give Up Her Seat Months Before Rosa Parks

She became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested at age 15 for violating Alabama’s bus segregation law.
12/17/2021

Civil Rights Pioneer Claudette Colvin Asks Court To Expunge Her 1955 Arrest

She refused to give up her seat on a bus before Rosa Parks ignited the civil rights movement.
10/27/2021

Ban On Children’s Books Featuring Rosa Parks And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reversed In Pennsylvania

Author Brad Meltzer fought back and won.
09/22/2021
American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks poses as she works as a seamstress, shortly after the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1956. (Photo by Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images)

This Day in Black History: Feb. 4, 1913

Rosa Parks is born.
02/04/2021

This Day in Black History: Dec. 5, 1955

The Montgomery Bus boycott began.
12/05/2020

This Day In Black History: Dec. 1, 1955

Rosa Parks is arrested.
12/01/2020

Breonna Taylor, John Lewis And Rosa Parks Nominated For Trump’s Garden Of American Hero

The National Garden plans to open to the public in 2026.
09/01/2020