‘I Was Not Going to Stand.’ Rosa Parks Predecessors Recall Their History-Making Acts of Resistance
March 13, 2020
On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was sitting on a totally full bus in Montgomery, Ala., when the driver asked her and three black schoolmates give up the whole row so that a white woman could sit. According to her biographer Phillip Hoose’s account of the events, her classmates got up and moved to…
Department Keep, Mobile, Alabama. Gordon Parks, 1956. This graphic was a part of Gordon Parks’s 1956 photograph essay For all times…
September 9, 2018
Department Shop, Mobile, Alabama. Gordon Parks, 1956. This photo was a part of Gordon Parks’s 1956 photograph essay For all times Journal documenting the lifetime of the Thornton family beneath segregation in Alabama. The essay served as critical documentation of the Jim Crow South and acted as a countrywide platform for difficult racial inequality. However,