On Nov. 27, 1955 Rosa Parks attended a packed mass meeting at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church to hear Dr. T. R. M. Howard speak. Howard was the lead organizer in the Emmett Till case, the 14-year-old Chicago boy who had been tortured and murdered near Money, Mississippi.
Four days later, when bus driver James Blake told Parks to give up her seat — “pushed as far as she could be pushed,” she refused.
This story is excerpted from the Rosa Parks biography website by Jeanne Theoharis. Read more:
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ro...
Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Monday, November 27th 2023 at 3:55PM
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