Showing posts with label Montgomery Bus Boycott. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Montgomery Bus Boycott. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Steve Flowers: Inside the Statehouse - Frank Johnson and the legend of the Free State of Winston

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  Those of us who are Baby Boomers remember the tumultuous times of the 1960s. We lived through the Civil Rights revolution. Those of us who...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Black economic boycotts of the civil rights era still offer lessons on how to achieve a just society

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  Signed into law 60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the U.S. based on “race, color, sex, religion, or n...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1628 - The power of looking back to move forward!

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  Looking back to move forward. This is a powerful concept. It is not a new concept. There is even an African symbol for this concept. It is...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Fifty years after Dr. King’s assassination: I remember most how he lived

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  I remember the day like it was yesterday. I was walking across the Harvard Law School Yard. It was dust dark. A fellow Harvard Law School ...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Rosa Parks, #MeToo, and the nature of the struggle

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  Three and a half years before Rosa Parks sat down, Pfc. Sarah Keys refused to get up.   Keys was in the Army and traveling home on furlo...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

Hank Sanders: Senate Sketches #1438: Young people are powerful

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  We forget that young people are powerful in so many ways. They change things culturally. They change things socially. They change things e...