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Significant thing: Pebble stability scales

Significant thing: Pebble stability scales

Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus)

Asian Tiger Mosquito (Aedes albopictus)

Details of statue and 10 headed god Ravana- Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple -Jaffna - Sri Lanka

Details of statue and 10 headed god Ravana- Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple -Jaffna - Sri Lanka

Details of the eastern Raja Raja Gopuram Gateway - Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple -Jaffna - Sri Lanka

Details of the eastern Raja Raja Gopuram Gateway - Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple -Jaffna - Sri Lanka

Biography: Rosa Parks's deliberate decision to test the practice of Jim Crow was the catalyst that triggered the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. The daughter of James and Leona Edwards McCauley, she grew up in Pine Level, Ala., and was sent away to a private girls' school in Montgomery at the age of 11. She later met Raymond Parks, a serious young barber with whom she spent many hours discussing the burden and injustice of the racial situation; they married in 1932. Mr. Parks was a member of the National Committee to Save the Scottsboro Boys, and she soon joined him in becoming active in the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, serving as secretary and youth adviser. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a Montgomery bus. Her arrest and the subsequent development of a 381-day bus boycott by tens of thousands heralded a new phase in the civil rights movement. The Black community formed the Montgomery Improvement Association, electing as president Martin Luther King, Jr.; Mrs. Parks served for a time on its board of directors. Fired from her job as an assistant tailor in a department store, she stayed in Montgomery until the boycott forced an end to all discriminatory practices on the bus lines. In 1957 she and her husband moved to Detroit, Mich., where in 1965 she took a part-time job as receptionist and administrative aide in the office of Congressman John Conyers. She was the first woman in 1980 to receive the Martin Luther King, Jr., Nonviolent Peace Prize. There is a National Committee for the Rosa L. Parks Shrine, organized to commemorate her life by the establishment of a home and library.

Description: The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981. With support from the Schlesinger Library, the project recorded a cross section of women who had made significant contributions to American society during the first half of the 20th century. Photograph taken by Judith Sedwick

Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

Collection: Black Women Oral History Project

Research Guide: guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_bwohp

Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian. Biography: Rosa Parks's deliberate decision to test the practice of Jim Crow was the catalyst that triggered the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. The daughter of James and Leona Edwards McCauley, she grew up in Pine Level, Ala., and was sent away to a private girls' school in Montgomery at the age of 11. She later met Raymond Parks, a serious young barber with whom she spent many hours discussing the burden and injustice of the racial situation; they married in 1932. Mr. Parks was a member of the National Committee to Save the Scottsboro Boys, and she soon joined him in becoming active in the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, serving as secretary and youth adviser. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white passenger on a Montgomery bus. Her arrest and the subsequent development of a 381-day bus boycott by tens of thousands heralded a new phase in the civil rights movement. The Black community formed the Montgomery Improvement Association, electing as president Martin Luther King, Jr.; Mrs. Parks served for a time on its board of directors. Fired from her job as an assistant tailor in a department store, she stayed in Montgomery until the boycott forced an end to all discriminatory practices on the bus lines. In 1957 she and her husband moved to Detroit, Mich., where in 1965 she took a part-time job as receptionist and administrative aide in the office of Congressman John Conyers. She was the first woman in 1980 to receive the Martin Luther King, Jr., Nonviolent Peace Prize. There is a National Committee for the Rosa L. Parks Shrine, organized to commemorate her life by the establishment of a home and library.

Description: The Black Women Oral History Project interviewed 72 African American women between 1976 and 1981. With support from the Schlesinger Library, the project recorded a cross section of women who had made significant contributions to American society during the first half of the 20th century. Photograph taken by Judith Sedwick

Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

Collection: Black Women Oral History Project

Research Guide: guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_bwohp

Questions? Ask a Schlesinger Librarian

Kolomenskoe Church in Moscow

Kolomenskoe Church in Moscow

Happy Chinese woman in red cheongsam tour at ancient town

Happy Chinese woman in red cheongsam tour at ancient town

Boston - Freedom Trail

Boston - Freedom Trail

Details of the Gopuram tower at the entrance to the Nallur Kandaswamy temple Kovil - Jaffna Sri Lanka

Details of the Gopuram tower at the entrance to the Nallur Kandaswamy temple Kovil - Jaffna Sri Lanka

Palacio de Aguas Corrientes in Buenos Aires

Palacio de Aguas Corrientes in Buenos Aires

Lionfish

Tourist at Revolving Theatre Cesky Krumlov

Tourist at Revolving Theatre Cesky Krumlov

Details of the Gopuram tower at the entrance to the Nallur Kandaswamy temple Kovil - Jaffna Sri Lanka

Details of the Gopuram tower at the entrance to the Nallur Kandaswamy temple Kovil - Jaffna Sri Lanka

Basingwerk Abbey historic ruins in Greenfield, near Holywell North Wales.

Basingwerk Abbey historic ruins in Greenfield, near Holywell North Wales.

The Freedom Trail of Boston, Massachusetts

The Freedom Trail of Boston, Massachusetts

Montreal scene ( Africa production)

Montreal scene ( Africa production)

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