April 28, 2009
In 1955, Rosa
Parks took on the whole system of Jim Crow by refusing to give up
her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus. Today, writes
David T. Beito, property owners Jimmy McCall and Jim Peera are
waging a lonely battle against the same city government for another
civil right: the freedom to build a home on their own land.
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