Fifty-Two Thousand Flyers Before Dawn
On the night of December 1, 1955, word spread through Montgomery, Alabama, that Rosa Parks — a seamstress and NAACP secretary — had been arrested...
This is a contemporary on sacrifice and catalytic action, drawing on Isaiah 1:17.
On the night of December 1, 1955, word spread through Montgomery, Alabama, that Rosa Parks — a seamstress and NAACP secretary — had been arrested for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger. By midnight, Jo Ann Robinson, an English professor at Alabama State College and head of the Women's Political Council, was at the school's mimeograph machine.…
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