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StoryCorps
The late Rev. Farrell Duncombe (left) spoke with his friend Howard Robinson for a StoryCorps conversation in 2010 about how his role models helped shape him as a leader in his Alabama community.

How Role Models Like Rosa Parks Shaped A Distracted Kid Into A Leader

Jun 11, 2021
At StoryCorps, the Rev. Farrell Duncombe remembered those who nurtured him — like Rosa Parks, his former Sunday school teacher, who joked once that as a kid, "I ain't think you was gonna be nothing."
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Obituaries
In this May 28, 1957, photo, Rev. Robert S. Graetz, center, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, left, talk outside the witness room during a bombing trial in Montgomery, Ala. Graetz, the only white minister to support the Montgom

Robert Graetz, Only White Pastor To Back Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dies At 92

Sep 22, 2020
Robert and his wife Jeannie Graetz faced bombs and KKK death threats for their role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, but their Black friends and neighbors protected them.
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StoryCorps
Georgia Rep. John Lewis near the statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., earlier this year. At StoryCorps in 2018, Lewis talked about meeting King in Montgomery, Ala., at 18.

Rep. John Lewis' Fight For Civil Rights Began With A Letter To Martin Luther King Jr.

Jan 17, 2020
As a teenager growing up in Alabama, Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King Jr. during a budding civil rights movement. In a letter back, King invited the 18-year-old to join the cause.
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National
"Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words" opened on Dec. 5 in Washington, D.C.

'Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words' Reveals The Real Person Behind The Icon

Dec 05, 2019
The Alabama woman's civil rights activism did not begin or end with her famous refusal to move to the back of a bus in segregated Montgomery, a new exhibit of her writings, documents and photos shows.
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The Salt
A bus driver is all alone as his empty bus moves through downtown Montgomery, Ala., in April 1956 during the boycott. Georgia Gilmore's cooking helped fund an alternative system of transportation that arose for the city's African-Americans during the boy

Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement

Jan 15, 2018
Georgia Gilmore organized black women to cook without raising the suspicions of their white employers, and poured the proceeds into an alternative transportation system for Montgomery bus boycotters.
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Can I Just Tell You?
In a speech at the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey told the story of Recy Taylor's violent rape by six white men in 1944. Taylor, pictured above, died last month at age 97. Her attackers were never prosecuted.

'Recy Taylor's Rape Still Haunts Us'

Jan 14, 2018
At the Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey told the story of Recy Taylor's rape in 1944. Taylor died last month at 97. NPR's Michel Martin reflects on their 2011 interview and why her story still haunts us.
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Code Switch
President Trump holds a jersey given to him by New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick (left) alongside members of the team during a ceremony Wednesday at the White House honoring the 2017 Super Bowl champions.

This Week In Race: Guess Who's Not Coming To The White House

Apr 21, 2017
Karma, man.
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U.S.
Montgomery Public Safety Commissioner Chris Murphy holds the city's police patch — the same one that officers wore when they arrested Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

In Montgomery, Rosa Parks' Story Offers A History Lesson For Police

Nov 30, 2015
Sixty years ago Tuesday, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Recruits in Montgomery, Ala., are learning about Parks in a course aimed at eliminating bias in policing.
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Race
Rosa Parks joins in a march at the South African Embassy in Washington, Dec. 10, 1984, protesting that country's racial policies. She's famous for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, sparking the Montgomery boycotts — but her activism spa

No Meekness Here: Meet Rosa Parks, 'Lifelong Freedom Fighter'

Nov 29, 2015
As the 60th anniversary of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott approaches, author Jeanne Theoharis says it's time to let go of the image of Rosa Parks as an unassuming accidental activist.
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Michel Martin, Going There
This undated photo shows Rosa Parks riding on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus. Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus on Dec. 1, 1955, and ignited the boycott that led to the end of legal segregation in public transportation.

60 Years Later, What Can Activists Learn From The Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Nov 27, 2015
Decades after Rosa Parks changed history, a new generation faces the challenge of remaking the civil rights movement for the next century. What can they learn from the past to build for the future?
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Code Switch
Meg McAleer, senior archives specialist at the Library of Congress, works with the Rosa Parks Collection in the Manuscript Room at James Madison Memorial Building of the Library.

After Years In Lockdown, Rosa Parks' Papers Head To Library Of Congress

Feb 20, 2015
Meg McAleer, one of the archivists working on the Rosa Parks collection, says the documents provide a new window on the courage and skill of Parks, and the consequences she and her husband suffered.
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