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...disciplines easily adopted the APA nondiscrimination policy. Many psychiatrists considered this ethical decision analogous to Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on the bus. In the decades since, many businesses, large and small, have introduced...
...were still not treating everyone equally. Finally in the late 50s and early 60s led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, the United States government passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leaving all Americans no matter what race, religion...
...dip in the floor where the caskets of slain presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy and civil rights activist Rosa Parks were placed for finale tribute. The Rotunda was completed in 1824. Its sheer size stood out for Beckman."I love...
...Plastic invented: revolutionizes products, packaging. 1909. 47. Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott begins after Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person. 1955. 48. Atomic bomb tested in New Mexico. 1945. 49. Apartheid...
...influenced her life? (Martin Luther King Jr., though any of the other choices -- Cesar Chavez, Robert F. Kennedy or Rosa Parks -- might have been as life-defining as Bill Clinton's JFK handshake.) What did Bill and Hill do on their first...
...the beaches of Iwo Jima and Normandy, and the various police actions our soldiers respond to today around the world? Rosa Parks could certainly be called a heroine. She helped change our society by her actions. Olympic participants who have the...
...Jesse Jackson for a scene in which a loudmouth barber makes jokes about civil rights icons Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. MGM rejected requests to have the scene cut from future versions of the film, and Sharpton has said he will consider...
...dismiss it the way Lopez did. Basically, what some women are saying about Augusta is hey, this isn't Norma Rae or Rosa Parks. This so-called movement doesn't begin to stand for what those two fought for. Imagine, all this rage and rhetoric...
Name calling is at it again and "whiners" is the favorite. I remember whiner Rosa Parks, who just wasn't satisfied to ride in the back of the bus. She didn't want to sit back there and be satisfied. She was always...
"I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as secretary of state." --Condoleezza Rice, in paying tribute to civil rights icon Rosa Parks at services Sunday.