Metro Bus drives carry flowers from vintage 1950's era bus parked in front of the Metropolitan AME Church during a memorial service for the civil rights icon Rosa Parks on October 31, 2005 in Washington, DC. More than 30,000 people at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda passed by the casket of the woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in 1955, sparking the American civil rights movement. (UPI Photo/Kamenko Pajic)
Rosa Parks is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:
NEW YORK, July 26 (UPI) -- Michigan officials asked a New York auction house to sell a collection of personal items that belonged to African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- Thousands of members of the nation's first black sorority gathered in Washington Monday for a weeklong convention marking the group's 100th anniversary.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 3 (UPI) -- Authorities in Alabama have filed criminal trespassing charges against former Chicago alderman and civil rights activist Dorothy Tillman.
MENOMONIE, Wis., July 4 (UPI) -- An estimated 100 people flocked to a Wisconsin couple's yard on Independence Day for a round of putt-putt golf with a slice of U.S. history thrown in.