Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist. She is best known for her 1955 refusal to move from her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in defiance of Jim Crow racial segregation laws, which sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. She is sometimes known as the "mother of the civil rights movement." Parks is cited by Jack Tottle as an example of perseverance in his article about women's participation in the bluegrass program at East Tennessee State University
In the newsletter
- No. 3 April-June 1995