Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of the principles behind yoga that connect the body and the mind.

Statues of civil rights activist Rosa Parks and disability rights activist Helen Keller are scheduled to be dedicated on the ...

By the time Parks was an adult, yoga had grown in popularity among movie stars and artists. Around this time, a yoga teacher named Indra Devi helped make the practice popular among celebrities ...

Rosa Parks transformed American history with her quiet defiance. On December 1, 1955, her refusal to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked a pivotal moment in the fight against racial ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — People gathered at the California Capitol for the 25th Annual Rosa Parks Day. Sacramento Regional Transit brought out old buses that operated in the 1950s.

Object Details Author Theoharis, Jeanne Subject Parks, Rosa 1913-2005 Contents National honor, public mythology : the passing of Rosa Parks -- "A life history of being rebellious" : the early years of ...

Margie Jumper never made the history books the way Rosa Parks did. But in the 1940s, in the decade before Parks took her defiant stand against racial segregation, Jumper took hers. For refusing to ...