Editor’s Note: In 2005, I went to the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit to attend a memorial to Rosa Parks following her death on Oct. 24, 2005. Draped in cloth, Montgomery City Bus #2857 was parked in front. It’s the bus Rosa Parks was riding on Dec. 1, 1955 when…
Rosa Parks (1913-2005) – Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
In 2013 on what would have been her 100th birthday, the U.S. POstal Service issued a stamp to honor Rosa Parks. (Photo: RET)