After retirement, Parks wrote her autobiography, and lived a largely private life in Detroit.

King wrote in his 1958 book Stride Toward Freedom that Parks ' arrest was the catalyst rather than the cause of the protest: " The cause lay deep in the record of similar injustices.

" He wrote, " Actually, no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, ' I can take it no longer.

The screenplay that Parks wrote was registered and placed in the records of the Library of Congress in Washington, D. C.

Parks wrote a series of children's books ( Jump ( with Malcolm Jones ), Jump Again and Jump on Over ), based around the Br ' er rabbit tales, illustrated by Barry Moser, and loosely accompanied by Parks ' own album Jump !.

On Huxley's death at 87 in 1975, John Owen ( Director of National Parks for Tanganyika ) wrote " Julian Huxley was one of the world's great men ... he played a seminal role in wild life conservation in Africa in the early days ... in the far-reaching influence he exerted the international community ".

In her 2007 Master's Thesis, Dog Parks: Benefits and Liabilities, author Laurel Allen wrote:

The grove is named after John A. Nelder, who was called by John Muir the " Hermit of the Fresno Forest "; Muir wrote about him and the area in 1878 ; the description was later included in his book Our National Parks:

In the 1980s he wrote and performed with actress Jody Seidel in a long-running radio comedy series centered on the characters of elderly couple Roly and Sonya Parks.

On 3 December 1913, Dominion Parks Commissioner James B. Harkin wrote to Deputy Minister of the Interior William Cory, arguing for the creation of a nation-wide system of parks, the first of which was to be Gatineau Park.

On a trip through Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks in 1914, Mather was shocked by the conditions he found and upon his return to Chicago, he again wrote Secretary Lane a highly critical report on the mismanagement of the national parks.

Parks wrote, " The big problem with film noir homages is they usually overdo the ingredients, with none of the subtlety of the great originals.

Theresa Randle played the title character, and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay.

Judge Schoettler wrote a letter to Chief Bernard Parks stating, " Had the matter been submitted to me for a determination, I would have found in favor of the City of Los Angeles.

In March 2003 Nick Mooney wrote a memo to be circulated within the Parks and Wildlife Services calling for more funding for the study of the disease, but the call for funding was edited out before the memo was presented to Bryan Green, then Minister for Primary Industries, Water and Environment.

He also wrote on Australian plants, including Australian Plants Suitable for Gardens, Parks, Timber Reserves etc ( 1911 ).

Scully served as a consulting producer on the NBC series Parks and Recreation, and wrote the episodes " Ron and Tammy " in 2009, and " The Possum " in 2010.

Kansas City has of spacious boulevards and parkways, 214 urban parks, 49 ornamental fountains, 152 ball diamonds, 10 community centers, 105 tennis courts, five golf courses, five museums and attractions, 30 pools, and 47 park shelters, all overseen by the city's Parks and Recreation department.

After working all day, Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus around 6 p. m., Thursday, December 1, 1955, in downtown Montgomery.

During a 1956 radio interview with Sydney Rogers in West Oakland several months after her arrest, Parks said she had decided, " I would have to know for once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 was passed with all party support.

The team played on a strictly amateur basis for 1895 at least, with a team featuring a number of works employees including Thomas Freeman ( ships fireman ), Walter Parks ( clerk ), Tom Mundy, Walter Tranter and James Lindsay ( all boilermakers ), William Chapman, George Sage, and William Chamberlain and apprentice riveter Charlie Dove.

Flower power came into its own during this occupation as hippies engaged in acts of civil disobedience to plant flowers in empty lots all over Berkeley under the slogan " Let a Thousand Parks Bloom ".

Parks come in all sizes ; a few are almost exactly one square kilometre in area.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Following the termination of the Capitol contract in 1969, the band's new contract with Reprise Records ( brokered by Van Dyke Parks, then employed as a multimedia executive at the company ) stipulated Brian Wilson's proactive involvement with the band in all albums — a factor that would become hugely problematic for the band in the years to come.

The park was created in 1997 by the amalgamation of Genoa, Tantawangalo, Bemboka, Yowaka and Coolangubra National Parks, all of which had been gazetted in 1994.

The land trusts have leased their land to the Director of National Parks for the purpose of a national park for the enjoyment and benefit of all Australians and international visitors.

In 1939, all of the islands in the group were declared a national park, which is now administered by the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service.

The Parks Board oversees all aspects of the Parks Department.

The Parks Board was created by ordinance and can consist of only four members all appointed by the Town Council President.

Wilderness areas, National Parks, scenic reserves, scientific reserves and forest parks are all types of nature reserves with varying degrees of protection.

Parks, playgrounds, fishing areas, and beaches are scattered all over the township.

Prestemon, Gauvitte and McKenna Parks were all named for members of the first city council in 1921.

The City Of Shelby Parks and Recreation Department has something for all to enjoy and has for over 60 years.

Several other governmental positions in the town, including the Beautification Committee, the Community Relations Committee, the Municipal Election Committee, the Finance Committee, the Parks and Recreation Committee, the Planning and Zoning Committee, the Public Works Committee, the Safety Committee, and the Board of Zoning Appeals are all staffed by volunteers as well.

, the members of the Ridgefield Park Board of Commissioners, whose terms of office all end in 2012, are Mayor George D. Fosdick ( Commissioner of Public Safety ), John H. Anlian ( Commissioner of Public Affairs ), Maggie Boyd ( Commissioner of Revenue and Finance ), Adam MacNeill ( Commissioner of Parks and Public Property ) and Hugo R. Poli ( Commissioner of Public Works ).

The Village of Whiting has its own full service Public Works department that deals with all aspects of Village Service such as, Water System, Parks and Roads.

While all of the other black people in her row complied, Parks refused, and was arrested for failing to obey the driver's seat assignments, as city ordinances did not explicitly mandate segregation but did give the bus driver authority to assign seats.

Waronker had been hired to produce The Tikis, the Beau Brummels, and The Mojo Men, who were all contracted to the Los Angeles independent label Autumn Records, and he in turn brought in Newman, Leon Russell and another friend, pianist / arranger Van Dyke Parks, to play on recording sessions.

Several complete Wilson / Parks songs and other musical fragments written for SMiLE subsequently appeared on the Beach Boys ' " replacement " album Smiley Smile, including " Heroes and Villains " and " Wind Chimes ", although most were re-recorded in drastically scaled-down arrangements.

Parks re-arranged and re-produced obscure songs and calypso classics.

The songs are pop tunes with an orchestral treatment including Japanese instruments and old Parks Caribbean favorites like steel drums.

1998 saw the release of Parks ' first live album, Moonlighting: Live at the Ash Grove, which shows a love of the work of 19th-century American pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk as well as performances of several of Parks ' better ( and lesser ) known songs.

Parks had four songs featured in the 1987 direct-to-video Disney film, The Brave Little Toaster.

Parks worked with Inara George on a record released in 2008, An Invitation, and they performed two songs together on 8 January 2008 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, as part of the program Concrete Frequency: Songs of the City.

Larry Parks ' vocals were recorded by Al Jolson ; Scotty Beckett's songs were recorded by Rudy Wissler.

Many artists, including Alan Price, Van Dyke Parks, Dave Van Ronk, Judy Collins, the Everly Brothers, Claudine Longet, Dusty Springfield, Nina Simone, Lynn Anderson, Wilson Pickett, Pat Boone and Peggy Lee, covered his songs and " I Think It's Going to Rain Today " became an early standard.

Patricia Cullen served as composer, and Los Angeles musicians Dean and Carol Parks worked on the film's six songs.

Merle Haggard, Van Dyke Parks, Ry Cooder, Leon Redbone, Louis Prima, Van Halen and their frontman David Lee Roth have all recorded Emmett Miller songs.

The songs on the album are all written about persons who Paul considers to be American heroes including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Georgia O ' Keeffe, and Rosa Parks.