Day: February 14, 2024

by Max J. Krupnick, Harvard Magazine, January-February, 2024 Most American school children learn about one Southern bus ride—on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, when Rosa Parks declined to cede her seat in the white section to a white man. Her refusal and ensuing arrest sparked the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott and catalyzed the civil rights…Continue Reading Break Every Chain: How black plaintiffs in the Jim Crow South sought justice

by Sarah Lewis, for the Washington Post, January 14, 2024 Sarah Lewis is the John L. Loeb associate professor of the humanities and associate professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and the author of the forthcoming book “The Unseen Truth: How Race Changed Sight in America.” On March 31, 1968, days…Continue Reading Opinion: How we learn to see history: A case study at the National Cathedral