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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: PBS News - Rosa Parks Biography. Sep 17, 2026
Add new Web site: Facing History and Ourselves - Rosa Parks: “There was nothing to do but keep going.”. May 28, 2026
Add new Web site: Brookings - Rosa Parks: Lessons learned for the future of civil rights. Apr 13, 2026
Revised Top Questions section. Feb 04, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 31, 2026
Anniversary information added. Oct 20, 2025
Media added. Oct 20, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - 'Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words' Reveals The Real Person Behind The Icon. Oct 10, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism. Jun 11, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 20, 2025
Add new Web site: CBS News - Claudette Colvin, arrested for not giving up her bus seat in 1955, gets wide recognition after CBS News story. Oct 11, 2024
Cross-references and head-levels added. Sep 10, 2024
Media added. Aug 15, 2024
Add new Web site: Iowa State University - Archives of Women's Political Communication - Rosa Parks. Jul 22, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Jan 02, 2024
Add new Web site: Bill of Rights Institute - Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Oct 27, 2023
Cross-reference added. Oct 25, 2023
Add new Web site: National Archives - An Act of Courage, The Arrest Records of Rosa Parks. Oct 16, 2023
Add new Web site: The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Rosa Parks. Aug 06, 2023
Add new Web site: The Henry Ford - Rosa Parks: What if I Don�t Move to the Back of the Bus? Apr 07, 2023
Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Mar 08, 2022
Add new Web site: PBS News - Rosa Parks Biography. Jun 30, 2021
Article revised. Apr 01, 2021
Corrected display issue. Feb 04, 2021
Cross-references added. Mar 11, 2020
Cross-references added. Oct 18, 2017
Add new Web site: Smithsonian Channel - Where Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation. Feb 16, 2017
Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Rosa Parks. Feb 15, 2017
Media added. Jan 22, 2016
Add new Web site: Alabama Women's Hall of Fame - Biography of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. Oct 31, 2014
Add new Web site: Great Black Heroes - Biography of Rosa Parks. Oct 31, 2014
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Biography of Rosa Parks. Oct 31, 2014
Add new Web site: Social Studies for Kids - Biography of Rosa Parks. Oct 31, 2014
Add new Web site: BlackPast - Rosa Parks (1913-2005). Oct 31, 2014
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Rosa Parks. Oct 31, 2014
Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Rosa Parks. Oct 31, 2014
Add new Web site: Iloveindia.com - Biography of Rosa Parks. Jan 18, 2013
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Biography of Rosa Parks. Jan 18, 2013
Added a photograph of her statue in the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Nov 30, 2010
Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Biography of Rosa Parks. Apr 13, 2009
Added new Web site: Academy of Achievement - Rosa Parks. Jul 07, 2006
Added new Web site: TIME 100: Rosa Parks. May 11, 2006
Article revised. Nov 10, 2005
Article revised. Oct 28, 1999
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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