Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision supporting school integration, the Little Rock, Arkansas School Board agreed to integrate by the 1957/1958 school year.
The world's first national park, Yellowstone National Park, was established on March 1, 1872 by President Ulysses Grant. Forty-four years later, on August 25, 1916, the National Park Service was established by Congress. Today there are fifty-eight Nationa
To access any of GORP's encyclopedic resources, you'll need to register and be at least thirteen-years old.
Whether you're looking to canoe in California or picnic in Pennsylvania, L.
The official National Park Service is my pick of the week because of the variety of its resources.
The National Parks Conservation Association's mission is to protect our national parks by educating politicians and the public about the parks' importance.
Need a little help mapping out your National Park adventure? Get inspired of one of these six preplanned road trips.
On December 1, 1955, African-American Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. One year later, on December 20, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregated bus seating illegal. During that year, the forty-two yea
This single page Rosa Parks feature is published by Girl Power, a public education campaign of the U.
Although this collection of lesson plans from the Alabama Department of Archives and History is targeted at teachers, the information and primary sources it contains are valuable for anyone wanting to understand the history of the civil rights movement.
Time Magazine names Rosa Parks as one of the "Heroes and Icons" of the twentieth century.
On December 1, 1955, African-American Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. One year later, on December 20, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregated bus seating illegal. During that year, the forty-two
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