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• - Biography and 1995 interview with audio and video.
  
• - Article by Rita Dove honoring Ms. Parks as one of the twenty most influential heroes and icons of the 20th century.
  
• - Legislation introduced by Rep. Julia Carson, D-Ind., to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Rosa Parks passes by a vote of 424 to 1.
  
• - Remarks by Federal Transit Administrator Gordon Linton.
  
• - Michigan, Parks' home state, designates the first Monday after February 4 as Mrs. Rosa L. Parks Day.
  
• - Missouri lawmakers to name a section of highway for Parks after the Ku Klux Klan adopted it for cleanup.
  
• - Parks hires Cochran to represent her.
  
• - An interactive history site with a brief profile and student tributes.
  
• - Article by Dan Horn about the arguments made before the U.S. Court of Appeals.
  
• - An article by Amy Frazier.
  
• - Article and video coverage of the event with links.
  
• - Parks accuses the rap group OutKast of misusing her name in a song.
  
• - Biography, Montgomery Bus Boycott, and photographs.
  
• - Biography with reading list.
  
• - An online activity for grades 7 and 8 about Parks' arrest, the boycott, nonviolence, and the court ruling, with an interview.
  
• - Parks met with Swaziland Queen Sibonelo Mbikiza to discuss a student exchange program between Africa and Park's Pathways to Freedom program.
  
• - Tells the story of Parks' arrest on the 1st of December, 1955, for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat.
  
• - Biographical article based on 1996 interview with Parks.
  
• - Parks wins rights to rosaparks.com from a cybersquatter.