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| Seeking freedom in the New Garden Woods |
| Tuesday, October 13, 2020 |
| “No man, who has not been in slavery, knows the real curse of it. If any man thinks slavery a proper thing, let him go and be abused as I was for years in North Carolina, much of the time in agony from irons and whips and paddles, and I think he would be tired of it too.” John Little was a long way from the South when he told his story. He |
| Rosa Parks’ home displayed in Italy as US race tensions rise |
| Wednesday, September 16, 2020 |
| NAPLES, Italy — The run-down, paint-chipped Detroit house where U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks took refuge after her historic bus boycott is going on display in Italy in a setting that couldn’t be more incongruous: the imposing central courtyard of the Royal Palace in Naples. It’s the latest stop for the house in a years-long saga that |
