The Chicago Board of Education will pick a name from three finalists: Harriet Tubman Elementary, Katherine Johnson Elementary or Rosa Parks Elementary.
It was Dec. 1, 1955. Rosa Parks had been arrested for her defiance of Montgomery’s segregated bus seating law, and Jo Ann Robinson sat at home lost in thought.
Could the Black women of the Women’s Political Council, for which she now served as president, convince 50,000 Black people to stay off the city buses that so many depended on as their only means of transportation? She couldn’t be sure.
Her telephone rang. It was attorney Fred Gray.
He had received the Alabama State College professor’s urgent message about Parks’ arrest. Active since 1949, Robinson and the WPC had worked closely with the burgeoning Black lawyer to negotiate with city leadership and Montgomery bus company officials for better treatment
African-American community leaders hope Black History Month sparks conversations about racial justice
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GREAT FALLS â Marcus Collins and his family have lived in Montana for over 25 years. Andre Murphy and his have been here for 16 years. Both Collins and Murphy are part of Montanaâs second-smallest designated population, according to the most recent available statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and montana.gov: Black/African-American.
But the two have more in common, and play a more important role in the Great Falls community, than just the color of their skin. Both men are pastors, Collins at Alexander Temple Church of God in Christ, Murphy at Living Grace Church. And both use that platform to promote conversations about race and inequality whenever they can.
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Major Civil Rights Movements in All 50 States
By Andrew Lisa, Stacker News
On 2/6/21 at 10:00 AM EST
A land of contradictions from the outset, the United States was founded by slave owners who spoke passionately and eloquently about liberty, freedom and justice for all. In the beginning, all was limited to men of European ancestry who were wealthy enough to own land. The Constitution s protections did not apply to most of the people living in America for most of America s history at least not in full.
Women about 50 percent of the population were not included in the country s concept of all, likewise millions of slaves and for a long time, their offspring. The descendants of the original inhabitants of the United States were commonly excluded from the promise of America, as were many immigrants, ethnic groups, and religious minorities.