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Jesuit Father Richard Malloy finds it helps to look at other times of distress and learn how people overcame disappointment. Exhibit A: The American civil rights movement during 1966-67.
Martin Luther King's traffic ticket changed history's course MICHAEL WARREN, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 9 1of9FILE - In this Oct. 19, 1960 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. under arrest by Atlanta Police Captain R.E. Little, left rear, passes through a picket line outside Rich's Department Store, in atlanta. On King's right are Atlanta Student Movement leader Lonnie King and Spelman College student Marilyn Pryce. Holding the sign is Spelman student activist Ida Rose McCree. Following the publication of "An Appeal for Human Rights" on March 9, 1960, students at Atl...
Paul and Stephen Kendrick on how King’s 1960 arrest influenced the presidential campaign.
Jean Graetz, White Supporter of Civil Rights in Alabama, Dies at 90 With her husband, Robert, Mrs. Graetz became a friend of Rosa Parks and supported the Montgomery bus boycott, despite threats to her life. Jean Graetz in 2018 at her home in Montgomery, Ala. She and her husband, Robert, were the targets of bombings in the 1950s for participating in civil rights efforts in Montgomery.Credit...Johnathon Kelso for The New York Times Dec. 19, 2020 Jean Graetz, who was among the few white people in Montgomery, Ala., to participate in the city’s civil rights movement in the 1950s — pushing forw...