![]() Businessman and philanthropist Howard Buffett had purchased the collection, which had languished in an auction house warehouse for years, to ensure the public would benefit from the historical record of Parks’ life. In September 2014, the Library of Congress received a remarkable 10-year loan of the Rosa Parks Collection. Rosa Parks waves from a United Air Lines jetway in Seattle, Washington, one of many trips she took to raise money and awarness for the bus boycott. ![]() 2 (March-April 2015):16-18, the recently acquired Rosa Parks Papers and how they shed new light on Parks and her activism. ![]() Listen to this page "Beyond the Bus: Rosa Parks’ Lifelong Struggle for Justice"īiographer Jeanne Theoharis, professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, describes in this article written for the Library of Congress Magazine, vol. ![]()
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