Tag: Rosa Parks

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FAMU Professor Serves as Model for Rosa Parks Sculpture

Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum, a Florida A&M University history professor, served as the model for a Rosa Parks sculpture recently unveiled in Montgomery, Alabama. The sculpture commemorates the 64th anniversary of the day police arrested Parks for refusing to give up her bus seat, then igniting the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott. The sculptor had asked […]

December 8, 2019

Brown Pellum getting measured

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The Fallacy of NOT Seeing Race

Over the last two weeks I’ve listened to friends, pundits and scholars debate the implications of discovering yearbook photos of Virginia’s Governor and Attorney General proudly wearing Blackface. These revelations are more complicated than dismissing them as youthful indiscretions that were simply apropos of the time.

February 14, 2019

Brown Cancels Exhibit of Rosa Parks Residence

Brown University has decided to cancel its plan to host an exhibit that included the home where civil rights icon Rosa Parks lived after she fled Alabama, where she had refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.

March 14, 2018

Brown Partners with Art Center to Host Rosa Parks’ House

Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) and WaterFire Providence have partnered to host civil rights activist Rosa Parks’ former home before residing permanently at another location in the U.S. chosen by artist Ryan Mendoza.

February 27, 2018

FILE PHOTO OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST ROSA PARKS AT MEDAL CEREMONY INWASHINGTON.

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Lipscomb University Celebrates Renaming of Legal Program After Civil Rights Icon

Lipscomb University, a private, liberal-arts institution in Nashville, celebrates the renaming of its legal seminars program after civil rights legend Fred D. Gray.

November 11, 2016

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