Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, today for disregarding the municipal segregation ordinance when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her refusal brought on the Montgomery Bus Boycott and challenged segregated transportation in the south. Read Full Story
On Sunday, four police officers were shot to death while sitting in a coffee shop in Parkland, Washington (a suburb of Tacoma). The suspect, 37-year-old Maurice Clemmons, has not been apprehended as of this writing. This terrible tragedy is the third such mass police shooting in 2009. Read Full Story