Rosa Parks, the matriarch of the civil rights movement, has been described as an old woman who was too tired to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. However, Parks used her autobiography to correct the record. “I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two.” She also made it clear that “the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” Parks’s sentiment represented the view of the millions of African Americans, and their allies...| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Rachel Carson was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania, and spent her childhood on a farm. She studied English and zoology at Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) and received her master’s degree in marine biology from Johns Hopkins University. She taught zoology at the University of Maryland before going to work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service where, in 1949, she became chief editor of its publications. In 1952, she purchased land on the Sheepscot River in West Southp...| Americans Who Tell The Truth
Daniel Ellsberg, born in Chicago, graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1952 with a degree in economics. After three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he served as a rifle corps commander, he returned to Harvard to earn his Ph.D. in economics.| Americans Who Tell The Truth
