More Rosa

     One of my favorite magazines, The Smithsonian, is published by the institution of the same name, which has access to the Rosa Park archives for a decade...and they have started using the materials.

The current issue includes a brief story about some of her writings and activities:

Parks said that she found “not too much difference” between the segregation and discrimination in Detroit and what she’d left behind in Montgomery. For the next five decades she fought racism in the North. She worked for Representative John Conyers, responding to constituents’ needs, and, calling Malcolm X her hero, took part in the growing black power movement; she served on prisoner-defense committees, showed up at scores of antiwar protests, spoke out for welfare and housing rights and volunteered for numerous black candidates.

AND I stumbled across an excellent 1989 article in The Washington Post about Parks and the bus driver who had her arrested. A truly good read.