Tag Archives: Brown v. Board of Education

Happy Birthday Rosa Parks, 2022 (repost)

Posted on February 4, 2022 by David S. Meyer

(In thinking about this repost, I want to encourage readers to take a look at the link to To Tell the Truth, the tv game show. The celebrities questioning three older Black women didn’t know her–except for Nipsey Russell, a Black … Continue reading →

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Rosa Parks bus defiance, anniversary.

Posted on December 1, 2020 by David S. Meyer

Today’s entry reposts on the anniversary of Rosa Parks’s refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus. Fifty-seven (now, 61) years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.  When local activists learned about … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, Rosa Parks (2019)

Posted on February 4, 2019 by David S. Meyer

(In thinking about this repost, I want to encourage readers to take a look at the link to To Tell the Truth, the tv game show. These days, her face is far more familiar, but her long term efforts are … Continue reading →

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Happy birthday, Rosa Parks (2017)

Posted on February 4, 2017 by David S. Meyer

Happy birthday, Rosa Parks!  Born on February 4, 1913, Parks was not a tired old lady in 1955, when she refused to move to the back of the bus.  She was an experienced and committed activist, deeply tied into the … Continue reading →

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Protest in the Trump era, part 2 of …..

Posted on January 22, 2017 by David S. Meyer

Donald Trump has provoked plenty of protest in his day, a period that, alas, will continue for at least a while. I’ve been trying to figure out which causes and constituencies are likely to be able to generate sustained, diversified, … Continue reading →

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Rosa Parks resistance, anniversary.

Posted on December 1, 2016 by David S. Meyer

Today’s entry reposts on the anniversary of Rosa Parks’s refusal to move to the back of a Montgomery bus.   Fifty-seven (now, 61) years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama.  … Continue reading →

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You Can’t Count on the Courts to ________ Social Change

Posted on May 27, 2011 by David S. Meyer

“Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.” This is a tag from Alexis de Tocqueville’s monumental Democracy in America, published well over 150 years ago. This is … Continue reading →

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