Category Archives: The Michigan Pages: History: Black History

Rosa Parks

November 1, 2005 – 3:51 pm

On October 24, 2005, Rosa Parks, the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” died in Detroit. She had earned that appellation fifty years earlier when she refused to move from her seat on a segregated bus in her hometown of Montgomery, Alabama. It was December 1, 1955. Parks was coming home from a long day [...]

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Sojourner Truth

August 15, 2005 – 7:02 pm

Sojourner Truth lived more than a century ago, but she remains an important national symbol for strong women of all races. Because her mother was a slave, when Sojourner Truth was born in New York State in 1797 she was a slave. She was given the name Isabella. At the age of nine, Isabella was [...]

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Detroit’s Walk To Freedom

June 22, 2005 – 6:44 pm

The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is among America’s best-recognized civil rights activists. His many accomplishments include his “I Have A Dream” speech that he gave on August 28, 1963, in Washington, DC. King, however, first gave that now-famous speech in Detroit. In the spring of 1963, Detroiters looked for a way to commemorate the [...]

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