THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Speaker, Leader Reid, Leader McConnell, Leader Pelosi, Assistant Leader Clyburn; to the friends and family of Rosa Parks; to the distinguished guests who are gathered here today.

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The award-winning journalist is the executive producer of a new documentary, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, which challenges the simplified narrative of a civil rights icon Based in Los ...

Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old African American seamstress and local activist, refused to give up her seat to a White passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus on this day in history, Dec. 1, 1955.

107 years ago, on this day, American activist Rosa Parks was born. Her pivotal role in the civil rights movement changed the history of this country, and her legacy lives on proudly today. And Parks’ ...