Writers present the perspective of their particular community and social order. Readers of literature are enabled to see into different lives, different communities, different worlds. Black women writers take the reader into the world of women and the world of the African-American alike, especiall...

Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher. Both her grandparents were born into slavery. At two, she moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Alabama, with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. At 11, she ...

A Dream Realized In Mary Louise Pratt's article "Arts of the Contact Zone," her "contact zones" are referred to as "[spaces] in which peoples geographically and historically separated come into contact with each other and establish ongoing relations, usually involvi...

Rosa Parks is one of the many people to protest racial segregation during the Civil Rights Movement to help provide blacks with equal rights. Parks is an African-American civil rights activist who is best known for her role in a 1955 boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. Parks triggered t...