I had never heard of this woman until looking up info on Rosa Parks a few years ago.
"Her arrest and $10 fine were appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court by a young NAACP lawyer named Thurgood Marshall, resulting in a landmark 1946 decision striking down Jim Crow segregation in interstate transportation. She inspired the first Freedom Ride in 1947, when 16 civil rights activists rode buses and trains through the South to test the law enunciated in Morgan v. Virginia."
The Freedom Rider a Nation Nearly Forgot (washingtonpost.com)
I suppose its her tussle with the cops that made her 'i aint gonna take no more' attitude that much more endearing.
Great Topic
TBD
