Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge
When one weary woman refused to be harassed out of her seat in the bus, the whole shaky edifice of Jim Crow began to totterJanet StevensonFebruary 1972A neatly dressed, middle-aged black woman was...
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A century after passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, many Southern blacks still were denied the vote. In 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr, set out to change that—by marching through the heart of...
View ArticleThe Word Is ‘slaves’: A Trip Into Black History
Deep South states are taking the lead in promoting landmarks of a three-hundred-year heritage of oppression and triumph—and they’re drawing visitors from around the worldMichael S. DurhamApril...
View Article“Tired Of Giving In”
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and its legacyNovember/December 2005December 1, 1955, was a cool, drizzly night in Montgomery. James F. Blake, a veteran of World War II and a veteran bus driver, was...
View ArticleKing Maker
During demonstrations in Birmingham, Martin Luther King Jr. took perhaps the most fateful decision made during the civil rights eraClayborne CarsonWinter 2010On April 12, 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama,...
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