Rosa Parks’ ‘Quiet Strength’ Echoes 70 Years Later
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority celebrates Rosa Parks Day in December 2022 by reserving a seat for the civil rights icon on each of its buses. (Ja’Mon Jackson/The Washington Informer)
Civil Rights Advocates, Leaders Honor a Legacy Beyond 1955
Reflecting on the catalyst for civil justice in his life, Frank Smith Jr., founder of the African American Civil War Museum, credits the “quiet strength” of a 42-year-old seamstress on Dec. 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and sparked a revolution in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
