Rosa Parks was an avid yoga practitioner. ... British social activist Annie Besant wrote the book “An Introduction to Yoga” as a collection of four lectures she gave on the practice in 1907.

People seated inside the Rosa Parks bus to hear a lecture for the 50th anniversary of the civil rights march on Washington DC, in August 2013 When Rosa Parks died on 24 November 2005, her body lay ...

It was a small act of defiance, but Rosa Parks' refusal, as a black woman, to give up her bus seat to a white man, would change the course of American history. On 1 December 1955, the 42-year-old ...

On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Discover how her act of defiance sparked the US civil rights movement.

On Feb. 27, 2013, a statue of Rosa Parks commissioned by Congress was unveiled in National Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, close to what would have been her 100th birthday.

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.

Civil rights icon Rosa Parks was a Yogi: ... British social activist Annie Besant wrote the book “An Introduction to Yoga” as a collection of four lectures she gave on the practice in 1907.