On Tuesday, July 21st The SS Columbia Project presented "Sarah Elizabeth Ray: The Rosa Parks of SS Columbia", a video by Aaron Schillinger. The screening was followed by a panel discussion moderated by Detroit Historical Society's Malika Pryor and featuring Schillinger, author Desiree Cooper, and historian and professor Victoria Wolcott.

In 1945, over a decade before Rosa Parks famously defied Jim Crow segregation laws, another Black woman in Detroit, Michigan won an important case in the United States Supreme Court…