Black Herstory: Rosa Parks Did Much More than Sit on a Bus
To be clear, Rosa Parks left us a deliberate legacy of activism, not an accidental activist moment. Furthermore, she, like many other Black women, should not be remembered in the shadows of Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. or any other Black male civil rights activist, but rather right alongside of them. We must realize and teach that when Rosa Parks was helping lay the foundation for the civil rights movement, Dr. King was still in high school.
Read the rest at “Black Herstory: Rosa Parks Did Much More than Sit on a Bus,” in Ms. Magazine
Black Herstory: Rosa Parks Did Much More than Sit on a Bus
To be clear, Rosa Parks left us a deliberate legacy of activism, not an accidental activist moment. Furthermore, she, like many other Black women, should not be remembered in the shadows of Dr. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. or any other Black male civil rights activist, but rather right alongside of them. We must realize and teach that when Rosa Parks was helping lay the foundation for the civil rights movement, Dr. King was still in high school.
Read the rest at “Black Herstory: Rosa Parks Did Much More than Sit on a Bus,” in Ms. Magazine
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