Beyond the Golden oldies of Black History Month, an excellent article on Black History by Betty DeRamus in a current issue of the Los Angeles Times.There is a lot more to black history Than Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman and George Washington Carver. For example, Rosa Parks was not the first black woman to refuse to surrender her seat on a city bus to a white person. Check out Irene Morgan, she was arrested in Virginia in 1944 for doing the same thing. The NAACP lawyers appealed Morgan's arrest and fine all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. That resulted in a 1946 decision ending segregation on interstate buses. - Winfred Nunn
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