A well traveled road to civil rights
The Library of Congress display of Rosa Park‘s personal documents, photographs and keepsakes became available recently to the public. Park’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955 was a key event in the civil rights movement.
Do a search through the Black Abolitionist Archive and you will find documents of similar treatments almost a hundred years earlier. Here are a couple of news reports from Black Abolitionist newspapers:
Sad to think it took so long and an act of Congress, to treat a fellow human being as an equal. Race relations have gotten better, but we still have a long way to go.
