Today the papers were covering the anniversary of one woman, Rosa Parks, who started the Civil Rights movement in Alabama. I guess I just respect me a brave Alabama woman. I found out in the article accompaning the Civil Rights movement that Parks was also the secretary of the Montgomery National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which supported the boys in the Scottsboro trial who were thought to have raped some white woman and were unfairly judged. I guess after living with a lawyer father and going to law school at Oxford myself, I can't help but find this interesting. In fact, I'd really like to give To Kill A Mockingbird ( I finally decided on that title! Atticus and Go Set A Watchman just don't have the same ring to them) a black/white trial angle, and talk about rights and segregation. Thank you, Rosa Parks, for the idea!
- Harper
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