1887A unity march from the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church to the Rosa Parks Museum was among the activities commemorating Rosa Parks Day.
On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery city bus outside the department store where she worked as a seamstress.
A few blocks later, in front of what was then the Empire Theater, Mrs. Parks would be arrested for failing to relinquish her seat to a white male passenger in a…
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TROY professor helps discover new species causing black gill in Georgia shrimp
December 4, 2019
By Matt Clower
The Skidaway Institute for Oceanography boat docks on the Skidaway River in Georgia.
A Troy University biologist recently identified the microscopic parasite behind a mysterious ailment ravaging the shrimp population off the coast of Georgia.
For years, Georgia’s shrimpers have watched in dismay as the shrimp population off the Atlantic coast has dwindled. As the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported, shrimpers there blamed “black gill,” an affliction that darkens…