“After a twenty-four-year-old Black woman was gang raped by six white men at gunpoint near Abbeville, Alabama, in 1944—and authorities made no move to look into the crime—the…NAACP sent Parks one hundred miles south to assist.”
- @JeanneTheoharis
- @JeanneTheoharis
“Along with Nixon, Rufus Lewis, and others, Parks worked to draw attention to the case with the Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor.”
- @JeanneTheoharis
#TheRebelliousLifeOfMrsRosaParks
Streaming NOW on @peacock!!!
- @JeanneTheoharis
#TheRebelliousLifeOfMrsRosaParks
Streaming NOW on @peacock!!!
“According to McGuire, Parks and Nixon’s work “paid off” when the Pittsburgh Courier ran an exposé on the case in their October 28, 1944, issue.”
- @JeanneTheoharis
“THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKS”
Streaming NOW on @peacock!!!
- @JeanneTheoharis
“THE REBELLIOUS LIFE OF MRS. ROSA PARKS”
Streaming NOW on @peacock!!!
“At an emergency meeting in the Hotel Theresa in Harlem on Nov. 25, 1944, the Committee for Equal Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor, which Mrs. Parks had helped organize, became a national organization.”
- @sewellchan | @nytimes
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- @sewellchan | @nytimes
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