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Admirers called the civil rights activist an "icon," a "spark plug" and a "mother figure." For Johnnie Carr, Rosa Parks' childhood friend who helped engineer the landmark bus boycott that led to the desegregation of public transportation in Montgomery, Ala., history-making was not the point. "We were thinking about conditions and discrimination," she said. As a member turned president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (she succeeded the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.), she organized car pools during the boycott and enrolled her son in the all-white Montgomery school system in a legal test case. Carr...
...Carr Center was founded in 1999 to prepare Kennedy School students for public service careers and to research solutions to public policy problems. Humanity United’s $2,100,000 grant is one of several the Carr Center has received since its founding, including a $337,600 grant from the Carnegie Corporation and a $245,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation...
...It’s really gratifying to be able to bring together different perspectives and different skill sets to help solve a widely-acknowledged problem, and that’s something that the Carr Center is uniquely privileged to do,” Sewall said...
Jacqueline Bhabha, executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies at the Carr Center, said that the grant will help support important research, but that more funding for human rights research is much needed...
Lois E. Andreasen, executive director of the Carr Center, said that the grant is a step towards this goal...