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December 2, 2025

Ebony JJ Curry, The Black Wall Street Times

Rosa Parks’ legacy continues to inspire and educate young people through efforts like her exhibit at the Library of Congress and the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation for Michigan students. (MARVIN JOSEPH/THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGES)

Detroit, the city where she chose to continue her life, insists on remembering her differently. Not as an icon frozen in time, but as a Black woman whose lifelong organizing stretched from sexual violence cases in rural Alabama to open housing fights on Detroit’s west side.

“Most people actually don’t know the story of Rosa Parks,” said Dr. Danielle McGuire, RPSF board member, historian and author of “At the Dark End of the Street”, whose research permanently shifted how historians write about Parks and the civil rights movement. “She’s so much more interesting, so much more radical, and so much more involved in all kinds of things that we forget about. We keep her stuck on the bus in Montgomery in 1955.”

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