Ida on the Anniversary of Rosa
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?
