The segregation and disenfranchisement laws known as "Jim Crow" represented a formal ... mandating segregation of schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, restrooms, buses, trains, and ...
Rosa Parks wasn’t born a household name ... Parks had firsthand experience with the harsh realities of Jim Crow laws that enforced racial segregation in the South. Growing up in this environment ...
She did this by: helping black people to register to vote in elections, which was very difficult under the Jim Crow laws campaigning ... Some people, such as Rosa Parks, lost their job for ...
Rosa Parks would have turned 112 this weekend. Twenty years after her death, her legacy in the face of Jim Crow laws and her dedication to non-violent civil rights change is continuing to be honored.