OutKast's tribute: find out how this hip-hop supergroup came together with civil rights leader Rosa Parks.(Cover Feature)(Cover Story)

Know Your World Extra | February 24, 2006 | Copyright

Hip-hop supergroup OutKast is planning an album and a TV program honoring Rosa Parks. Group member Andre 3000 and singer Gwen Stefani have already dedicated a song to Parks. And they aren't the only celebrities who have b spoken up about Parks's legacy. Parks has been called the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," because she fought against segregation on the buses in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks was world famous but also very humble. She lived in a small apartment in Detroit, Michigan. She was a quiet, dignified, churchgoing woman. She didn't have much in common with a wild ...

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