The Sarah E. Ray Project- Detroit’s Other Rosa Parks

Seventy-five years ago a 24-year-old, African American secretary Sarah Ray was denied a seat on the segregated Boblo boat, SS Columbia. Like Rosa Parks, she refused to back down, taking her fight for integration all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Represented by fabled NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall, Ray won her case. Scholars argue that she paved the way for the seminal 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, which found that separate was inherently unequal. Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist and community activist Desiree Cooper and ‘Hometown Talent’ award winner filmmaker Aaron Schillinger as they present The Sarah E. Ray Project. This is a virtual event. Registration is required to receive the Zoom link.