37. An Empowered Woman

November 28, 2009 By

Dear Followers, Thanks to today's New York Times, I learned about a 70 year old woman who has lived in the Bronx for decades, and played an "unheralded" role in the Civil Rights movement. Most of us think of Rosa Parks (who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus) as a trailblazer in the battle for desegregation back in the 1950s. But thanks to writer Phillip Hoose, who won the National Book Award for Young People's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: An Empowered Woman, Claudette Colvin, Empowered Women Network, Phillip Hoose, Rosa Parks, Twice toward justice