(CNN) – In the wake of Barack Obama’s second inauguration, it is easy to forget about the daily indignities and terror African-Americans have endured; easy to forget that simply surviving segregation required ordinary people to engage in...
I loved this freewheeling conversation with Stephen Henderson about Rosa Parks; the long history of black women’s organizing that led to the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott; and how we teach and talk about the civil rights movement today.
On Rosa Parks’s 100th Birthday, I spoke with Stateside (Michigan NPR) about the life and legacy of Rosa Parks. I joined them from the Rosa Parks celebration and National Day of Courage, at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. There...
Here’s Recy Taylor’s Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recy_Taylor I don’t know who wrote it, but I am grateful!
By Danielle McGuire, Special to CNN (CNN) – In 2011, Rosa Parks was in the news, six years after her death. An excerpt from a breathtaking essay she wrote in the 1950s about a “near rape” by a white man in Alabama was released to the...
From the Dothan Eagle August 29, 2012: Aug. 29–Henry County Sheriff’s investigators are looking for information in the theft of a Rosa Parks historical marker. Sheriff William Maddox said it’s the second time his office has...
On Thursday, I went to Washington DC to honor Recy Taylor and to “reintroduce” Rosa Parks as a militant detective and fierce activist for human dignity and civil rights at the National Press Club. We started the day with a private...
Here’s the article by Bob Johnson and Errin Haines at the AP: MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Legislature has officially apologized to an elderly black woman who was raped nearly seven decades ago by a gang of white men as she walked...
I had a great time speaking on Left of Black with Mark Anthony Deal of Duke University about how rape and resistance to rape sits at the center of the modern Civil Rights Movement. We talked about Recy Taylor, Gertrude Perkins and the gendered...
This is an excellent article by Cynthia Gordy, a journalist at the Root.com: Recy Taylor hadn’t asked for much. More than six decades after she was raped by six white men in her hometown of Abbeville, Alabama – a horrific crime that the sheriff’s...
The Alabama House made an historic move Tuesday (March 29) towards a state apology to Recy Taylor, 91, who was gang raped by 7 white men in Abbeville, Ala., in 1944. The AP reports: The House on Tuesday approved by an apparent unanimous voice...
Ben Greenberg got it right: personal apologies, but nothing official for Recy Taylor from Alabama. An official apology is the least Alabama could do: the armed perpetrators confessed to intercourse with Taylor, but falsely claimed she was a...
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