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‘The camera is my weapon of choice’: Gordon Parks’ era-defining shots of segregation – and those who defied it ○
The visionary photographer captured the ugliness of racism in America, as well as the strength and dignity of those who opposed it – from cleaners in the corridors of power to Martin Luther King Jr p…
83 days ago
Claudette Colvin obituary ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
US civil rights activist who as a schoolgirl protested against segregation on Alabama’s buses
Although she was a pivotal figure in the US civil rights movement, Claudette Colvin, who has died aged 86…
87 days ago
Claudette Colvin’s life should teach us this: resistance is collective, and it never stops | Gary Younge ⊕
Colvin, who died this week, made a stand on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks. When we met, her message about the struggle was clear
“In life, there’s the beginning and the end,” John Carl…
90 days ago
Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer arrested for not giving up bus seat, dies aged 86 ⊖⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance
US civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin, arrested at age 15 for refusing to give up he…
3 months ago
Texas father rescues kidnapped 15-year-old daughter after tracking her phone’s location ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Authorities say they arrested a man, 23, for kidnapping teen in a Houston suburb as she walked her dog on Christmas
A Texas father used the parental controls on his teenage daughter’s cell phone to fi…
4 months ago
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis ⊖⊖
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required repeated action and tremendous sacrifice, without any certainty it would work
The Montgomery bus boycott, which began 70 year…
Rosa Parks’ vacant former home is an emblem of racist housing policies | Bernadette Atuahene ⊖⊖
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Seventy years after the Montgomery bus boycott, policies hiding in plain sight continue to ravage the Black community
Friday is the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began because…
What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today | Jan-Werner Mueller ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Rosa Park’s story is about courage. But, lest one forget, it is also a story about breaking the law
It was 70 years ago when four African Americans were sitting in the fifth row of a bus in Montgomery…