by LaKisha | Feb 14, 2020 | Black History
Richard Perry Loving, who was of Irish and English descent, met Mildred Jeter, who was of African American, European and Native American descent in Central Point, Virginia. He was 17 and she was 11. The rural Caroline Country was known for its racial mixing, with...
by LaKisha | Feb 1, 2020 | Black History
On March 2, 1955, a 15-year-old high school student attending Booker T. Washington High School named Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. She, not Rosa Parks, was the first to refuse her seat to a...
