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Remembering The Legacy Of Dr. King Seems More Important Each Year

I remember back in high school, my government teacher, Georgia Hardwick, said that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew he was living on borrowed time the minute he started pushing back. Or shall I say that he didn’t push back. The authorities were wanting a reason to use force but by non-violent resistant, they willContinue reading “Remembering The Legacy Of Dr. King Seems More Important Each Year”

Rosa Parks Refused To Give Up Her Rights And Sparked A Revolution

Rosa Parks wasn’t the first black woman in the south who refused to give up their seats to white passengers on the transit buses. Parks had been born into a world in Jim Crow Alabama where black people had very little civil rights. In 1900, the Montgomery City Council had passed an ordinance basically sayingContinue reading “Rosa Parks Refused To Give Up Her Rights And Sparked A Revolution”