'She Who Dared' Shines a Powerful Light on Four Overlooked Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement

'She Who Dared' shines a powerful light on four overlooked heroines of the Civil Rights Movement

We all know about civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who on Dec. 1, 1955, defiantly refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white passenger as the Jim Crow laws at the time decreed.But history has largely forgotten or ignored others who came before her and similarly defied the law, including four who were plaintiffs in a 1956 federal lawsuit that sought and won a decision ruling such segregation to be illegal — Aurelia Browder…

‘She Who Dared’ shines a powerful light on four overlooked heroines of the Civil Rights Movement – Usa news

We all know about civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who on Dec. 1, 1955, defiantly refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white passenger as the Jim Crow laws at the time decreed. But history has largely forgotten or ignored others who came before her and similarly defied the law, including four who were plaintiffs in a 1956 federal lawsuit that sought and won a decision ruling such segregation to be illegal — Aurelia Browde…