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Home / Society / History / By Region / North America / United States / Personas / Parks, Rosa
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- Academy of Achievement: Rosa Parks - Biography and 1995 interview with audio and video.
www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
- Canoe: Rosa Parks Fights for Web Spot - Parks wins rights to rosaparks.com from a cybersquatter.
www.canoe.ca/TechNews0009/20_parks-ap.html
- Cincinnati Enquirer: Rosa Parks Argues vs. Rap - Article by Dan Horn about the arguments made before the U.S. Court of Appeals.
enquirer.com/editions/2001/05/05/loc_rosa_parks_argues_vs.html
- CNN: Rosa Parks Honored with Congressional Gold Medal - Article and video coverage of the event with links.
www.cnn.com/US/9906/15/rosa.parks.medal
- Colored Reflections: The Fifties, Rosa Parks - An interactive history site with a brief profile and student tributes.
www.coloredreflections.com/decades/Decade.cfm?Dec=1&Typ=2&Sty=1&SID=25
- Detroit Free Press: Klan Road Named for Rosa Parks - Missouri lawmakers to name a section of highway for Parks after the Ku Klux Klan adopted it for cleanup.
freep.com/news/nw/parks24_20000524.htm
- Detroit Free Press: Tributes to Rosa Parks Hard to Find in Montgomery - An article by Amy Frazier.
freep.com/news/nw/qrosa25.htm
- Detroit News: Rosa Parks Asks Court to Reinstate Lawsuit Against Rappers - Parks accuses the rap group OutKast of misusing her name in a song.
detnews.com/2001/metro/0105/05/metro-220433.htm
- Detroit News: Rosa Parks, African Queen Discuss Exchange Program - Parks met with Swaziland Queen Sibonelo Mbikiza to discuss a student exchange program between Africa and Park's Pathways to Freedom program.
detnews.com/2000/detroit/0009/12/d06-118533.htm
- Grand Times: The Woman Who Changed a Nation - Biographical article based on 1996 interview with Parks.
www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
- Lifetime Achievement Award For Rosa Parks - Remarks by Federal Transit Administrator Gordon Linton.
www.fta.dot.gov/library/reference/parks.html
- Meanderings: Poetic Imagery Inspired by Rosa Parks - Poems by Joyce French and a graphic by Joseph Williams.
www.newsavanna.com/meanderings/me203/me20304.html
- MTV: Johnnie Cochran To Represent Rosa Parks In Outkast Appeal - Parks hires Cochran to represent her.
www.mtv.com/news/articles/1432968/20000809/story.jhtml
- Press Release: House Passes Carson Bill - Legislation introduced by Rep. Julia Carson, D-Ind., to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Rosa Parks passes by a vote of 424 to 1.
www.house.gov/carson/rosahous.htm
- Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott - Tells the story of Parks' arrest on the 1st of December, 1955, for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat.
www.holidays.net/mlk/rosa.htm
- Scholastic: Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights - An online activity for grades 7 and 8 about Parks' arrest, the boycott, nonviolence, and the court ruling, with an interview.
teacher.scholastic.com/rosa
- Senate Bill would Award Rosa Parks Congressional Gold Medal - Senate tribute by Senator Carl Levin, Democrat from Michigan.
www.senate.gov/~levin/releases/030499.htm
- State News: Parks Recognized for Role in Struggle - Michigan, Parks' home state, designates the first Monday after February 4 as Mrs. Rosa L. Parks Day.
www.statenews.com/editionsspring98/020998/ca_day.html
- The Glass Ceiling: Rosa Parks - Biography with reading list.
www.theglassceiling.com/biographies/bio26.htm
- Time 100: Heroes and Icons: Rosa Parks - Article by Rita Dove honoring Ms. Parks as one of the twenty most influential heroes and icons of the 20th century.
www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html
- TSUM: Rosa Parks Library and Museum - Biography, Montgomery Bus Boycott, and photographs.
www.tsum.edu/museum
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