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Montgomery AKAs to honor Rosa Parks with historical marker
Source A historic marker honoring Civil Rights pioneer Rosa L. Parks will be dedicated at 4 p.m. Feb. 24 at Dexter Avenue in Montgomery’s Court Square. The marker is posted at the exact site where Parks boarded a Montgomery city bus and sparked the modern day Civil Rights Movement. The dedication is a partnership of [...]
kevin1914 | Feb 17, 2010 | Comments 0
Gainesville Bus terminal honors AKA Soror Rosa Parks
Source The legacy of the “mother of the civil rights movement” in America will live on in southeast Gainesville for years to come as city officials and the Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee officially recognized the naming of the downtown city bus terminal in honor of Parks. Officials removed an African kinte cloth from lettering [...]
kevin1914 | Oct 29, 2009 | Comments 0
