Legislature approves pardon process for Rosa Parks
The Alabama Legislature has given final approval to a bill that sets up a process to pardon US civil rights icon Rosa Parks and hundreds of others arrested for violating segregation-era laws.
The sponsor of the bill, Republican Thad McClammy, said it could lead to pardons for Parks, civil rights leader Martin Luther King and hundreds of others convicted of violating laws aimed at keeping the races separate. McClammy said the arrests dated back as far as the early 1900s.
