Culture
The Rosa Parks Archive: A National Treasure
New York City, NY – Vickie Newton
Rosa Parks is revered as The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Nowhere is that distinction more obvious than in the thousands of pages Mrs. Parks wrote during those turbulent years . A court in Michigan assigned New York City auction house, Guernsey’s, with assembling and marketing Mrs. Parks’ archive. Watch and listen as TheVillage takes you on a rare tour of one of the most historically significant archives in American history.
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