Sunday, February 5, 2012

Meet Mary Pleasant, Mother of Civil Rights in California

March 19, 2010 by  
Filed under DVD

DescriptionMEET MARY PLEASANT is a one-hour unique ‘performance documentary,’ a colorful look at the unsung and daring 19th-century African-American activist/entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant, now called ‘The Mother of Civil Rights in CA.’ Pleasant was a 19th-century Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks combined, and she changed modern day civil rights law. This colorful [...]