MARQUETTE, MI – (Great Lakes Radio News) – The U.S. Postal Service is honoring civil rights icon Rosa Parks today on what would have been her 100th birthday.
The Postal Service is featuring a stamp with Parks’ likeness on it. Parks is credited as the catalyst in the civil rights movement in America for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Alabama in 1955.
Not long after that historic event, Rosa Parks and her husband moved to Detroit where she lived until her death in 2005.
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