Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks Archive Fully Digitized by Library of Congress

FILE – Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001. (AP) WASHINGTON (AP) — Rosa Parks’ archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs has been fully digitized by the Library of Congress and is now available online. The library announced Wednesday that the collection of 10,000 items belonging to Parks is available to the public. Her collection was kept from the public for…

60 Years Later: Remembering Rosa

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old secretary for the NAACP defied Jim Crow laws that called for the separation of the races by refusing to move to the back of a bus in order to allow a white passenger to have her seat. Her defiant act in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 was a pivotal point…