The battle for equality goes back nearly two centuries: New book examines efforts by Black Americans to fight segregation in public transport

The battle for equality goes back nearly two centuries: New book examines efforts by Black Americans to fight segregation in public transport

By STEVE PFARRER For the Valley Advocate Along with Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Kwame Ture, Rosa Parks is one of the celebrated names of the civil rights movement: the Montgomery, Alabama woman who refused to move from her seat on a bus in 1955, sparking a historic bus boycott in that city that in turn helped jumpstart the push to end segregation across the Jim Crow South. But outside of Parks, asks John Bollard, how many Americans t…