Rosa Parks

Human Rights

After Rosa sat: The genius and success of the 13-month Montgomery Bus Boycott

By Chris Kromm

December 4, 2015 - Decades before the "sharing economy," African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama used Rosa Parks' arrest to organize a sophisticated city transit system that made the bus boycott a success and became a symbol of the power of collective action for the Southern civil rights struggle.

Remembering Southern Black freedom fighter Mabel Williams

By Sue Sturgis

April 25, 2014 - Mabel Williams, who with her husband, Robert F. Williams, advocated armed self-defense against racist violence in Jim Crow North Carolina, has passed away. In exile in Cuba during the 1960s, she and her husband launched Radio Free Dixie and published the influential underground newsletter The Crusader.

Human Rights

Coretta a "communist"? There's a history here

By Chris Kromm

March 24, 2006 - The Washington Post's new blogger Ben Domenech, a staunch conservative brought on to "balance" the paper's "liberal" image, is being hammered on many fronts, including plagiarism.

Remembering Rosa Parks, again

By R. Neal

December 1, 2005 - Posted by R. Neal

Remembering Rosa Parks, looking to the future

By R. Neal

November 1, 2005 - Posted by R. Neal I happened to catch some coverage of yesterday's Rosa Parks memorial service at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington. I had to rewind the TIVO to listen again to the wonderful speech by Johnnie Carr, a Montgomery civil rights leader and Rosa Parks' lifelong friend.

Human Rights

381 days

By Chris Kromm

October 26, 2005 - Charlie Cobb, a key organizer in the civil rights movement who conceived the idea of "freedom schools" to bring real education to dispossessed black children in Mississippi, sent these short thoughts on the importance of Rosa Parks:

Rosa Parks: Symbols, myths and movements

By Chris Kromm

October 26, 2005 - If you've read the eulogies to Rosa Parks today, you've probably read the same story I have about the event that made her a civil rights legend: on December 1, 1955, a tired seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama gets on a bus, sits down, is told to stand up for a white passenger, refuses, gets arrested, and the freedom movement is b

Thank you, Miss Rosa

By Chris Kromm

October 25, 2005 - Rosa Parks, one of the countless heroes of the Southern freedom movement whose symbolism of defiance to injustice inspired millions, has died.

Stayed on Freedom

By Chris Kromm

October 10, 2005 - December 1, 2005 marks the 50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. That's the day when Rosa Parks, a former secretary for the local NAACP, boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in downtown Montgomery, and refused to give up her seat for a white passenger.