Rosa Parks : my story by Parks Rosa 1913-2005;Haskins James 1941- & Haskins James 1941-

Author:Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005;Haskins, James, 1941- & Haskins, James, 1941-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005, African Americans, Civil rights workers, Segregation in transportation, African Americans
Publisher: New York : Scholastic Inc.
Published: 1994-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

white Violence Gets Worse

An elementary classroom in Washington, D.C., one year after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling that school segregation was unconstitutional. (U.S.N, e) W.R. Collection, The Library of Congress)

away for twenty years, she wanted to be part of our efforts to end segregation, even though that meant being ostracized and made to suffer.

The year I met Mrs. Durr, 1954, the United States Supreme Court handed down the famous decision Brown v. Board of Education that declared segregated education unconstitutional. The NAACP had been working for that for years and years, since around 1925. They had attacked the issue of ''separate but equal'' education from all different angles, because of course from whatever angle you looked at it, education in the South was separate but not equal. Just in my growing up, I had seen that.

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