[cyborg]

There was a controversey about another woman doing the same thing but not getting as much credit. It had to do with NAACP political power drama behind the scenes. I just didn't get the logic of Outkast asssociating her name with a song calling someone a nigger. If they were called a nigger by a white person, they'd be insulted and we'd never hear the end of it.

[jackbill]

There was a controversey about another woman doing the same thing but not getting as much credit.

I've heard that story as well. I seem to remember that it was a young black woman - perhaps a teenager? The NAACP wanted someone connected with them to be doing it so they sent Rosa out to duplicate the girl's action.

Wonder where you can get the real facts?

[weegee]

There was a controversey about another woman doing the same thing but not getting as much credit. It had to do with NAACP political power drama behind the scenes.

It's before my time but there was a dining counter in Houston (at the downtown Woolworth's I think, it was possibly the world's largest) that was integrated. I don't know all of the details but I have read several accounts of it. I think that the authorities appealed to the Houston papers (we had more than one daily back then) NOT to cover the story. There was minimal outcry. Basically one day it was segregated, some black people refused to move, and the next week things had changed without devisive outbursts (the change had already occurred adn there was no going back).