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  • Invoking Rosa Parks, Haredi Women Move to Back of the Bus 24 Jul 2008 21:46 GMT
    ... also has sparked a row over who may lay claim to the legacy of Rosa Parks, the African-American civil rights activist who famously refused to obey an Alabama bus driver’s order to give her seat to a white passenger. Opponents of segregation say ...

  • Claiming Mantle of Rosa Parks, Some Haredi Women Defiantly Move to the Back of the Bus 24 Jul 2008 16:15 GMT
    ... also has sparked a row over who may lay claim to the legacy of Rosa Parks, the African-American civil rights activist who famously refused to obey an Alabama bus driver’s order to give her seat to a white passenger. Opponents of segregation say ...

  • Remembering Baba Gurdit Singh 23 Jul 2008 23:35 GMT
    ... kept the blacks and the whites apart. Rosa Parks challenged one such law by refusing to ... for doing so. Her action galvanized the civil rights movement that brought an end to America’s ...

  • Civil rights memorial unveiled Monday 22 Jul 2008 12:30 GMT
    ... time Monday, statues of black children and civil rights leaders were placed alongside statues of some ... turned around and asked me why wasn't Rosa Parks here,' Collis said. ``The civil rights movement ...

  • Officials, family members unveil Virginia Civil Rights Memorial 22 Jul 2008 09:07 GMT
    ... smiles greeted the unveiling of the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial. The four-sided granite block with 18 ... her out of there. She went to Montgomery, Ala." Asked if he ever imagined a ... why a statute of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was not on the Capitol lawn. The ...

  • VA Civil Rights memorial unveiled 21 Jul 2008 22:16 GMT
    ... who 50-plus years ago stood up for civil rights and were memorialized today in a stunning ... 2002 why there were no statues commemorating Rosa Parks. Sculptor Stanley Bleifeld said: “I did not ...

  • Civil-rights memorial dedicated at Capitol 21 Jul 2008 16:30 GMT
    ... who 50-plus years ago stood up for civil rights and were memorialized today in a stunning ... 2005 why there were no statues commemorating Rosa Parks. Sculptor Stanley Bleifeld said: "I did not ...

  • Follow Mandela's example to honour him: Obama 21 Jul 2008 15:55 GMT
    ... should be." That was what led Mandela, Rosa Parks - who refused to give up her ... passenger, and sparked a bus boycott, and civil rights activist Martin Luther King to help build ...


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