Sunday, January 15, 2012

From Birmingham, Alabama: "Another Role for Buses in Civil Rights History," by Kim Severson for The New York Times


Get people talking about civil rights-era buses and it’s all Rosa Parks all the time.

Museums are dedicated to her role in the boycott in the mid-1950s that forced Montgomery to stop banishing African-Americans to the back of city buses. Schools and stamps bear her name. There is a Rosa Parks cookie jar and a Rosa Parks app.

But no one talks much about Worcy Crawford, who died in July at age 90, leaving a graveyard of decaying buses behind his house on the outskirts of Birmingham.

(Read more here.)

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