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The Rosa Parks Collection is Now Online
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The Rosa Parks Collection is Now Online

Sentinel News ServiceMarch 3, 2016

The Rosa Parks Collection at the Library of Congress has been digitized and is now online at www.loc.gov/collections/rosa-parks-papers/about-this-collection. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photographs, is on loan to the Library for 10 years from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The Library received the materials in late 2014, formally opened them to researchers in the Library’s reading rooms in February 2015 and now has digitized them for optimal access by the public. “It’s a great privilege to open the Rosa Parks Collection and help people worldwide discover more about her active life and her deep commitment to

Amelia Boynton Remembered as the ‘Rosa Parks’ of Selma Movement
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Amelia Boynton Remembered as the ‘Rosa Parks’ of Selma Movement

George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-ChiefSeptember 3, 2015

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Amelia Boynton Robinson, who died Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala. at the age of 104, is being praised as the ‘Rosa Parks’ of the Selma voting rights movement. Mrs. Boynton, as she was known throughout the movement, had been hospitalized since suffering a stroke in July. She was a courageous voting rights crusader who was brutally beaten on “Bloody Sunday” on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the first leg of the Selma to Montgomery, Ala. March that provided the impetus for passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B.