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Rosa Parks learned to stand her ground for which she was hauled off to jail. This incident wasn’t the first time, nor the last time, that an Afro-American would be incarcerated for an act of civil disobedience. Her arrest was due to this event: A bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama ordered her to give up her seat in the “colored”[Read More...]
John Lewis ( 21 February 1940 – 17 July 2020) Legendary Civil Rights leader John Lewis died on 17 th July 2020. An analyst wrote ”Lewis, a titan of the civil rights movement, died on Friday at the age of 80, severing a vital link with the generation that rose in the 60s to resist … Continue reading Rest In Power John Lewis →
Rosa Parks: The Real Story
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
25 February 2020
In December an exhibition about the life of Rosa Parks opened at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The same month a new statue honouring the civil rights icon was unveiled in Alabama’s state capital, Montgomery.
Ida B. Wells, an African-American native of Holly Springs, Mississippi, refused to give up her seat on a train on May 4, 1884, only to be dragged off by white men. Seven full decades prior to that event in Alabama on the Montgomery bus which made Rosa Parks into an icon.
Why have most people heard about Rosa, while many less are blessed with any knowledge whatsoever about Ida?
