WAUKEGAN Tuesday Jan 15 2013 Rosa Lee Shields (middle) stands with granddaughter Tammy Moore (left,) and daughter Johnnie Cox. | Michelle LaVigne~Sun-Times Media
WAUKEGAN Monday Jan 14 2013 Rosa Lee Shields, 88, heard King speak in her native Vicksburg, Miss., in 1964, where she joined a demonstration and was jailed over voting rights.| Michelle LaVigne~Sun-Times Media
Rosa Lee Shields of Vicksburg, Mississippi with her brother Daniel Myers in a photo from 1964. Shields heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak in Vicksburg in 1964 and was arrested and jailed when she joined a demonstration over voting rights. | Special for Sun-Times Media
An undated photo of Rosa Lee Shields of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Shields heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak in Vicksburg in 1964 and was arrested and jailed when she joined a demonstration over voting rights. | Special for Sun-Times Media
Pleasant Green M. B. Church in Vicksburg, Mississippi where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in 1964. Rosa Lee Shields of Vicksburg, Mississippi heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak in 1964 and was arrested and jailed when she joined a demonstration over voting rights. | Special for Sun-Times Media
When Rosa Shields left her children on the day before Mother’s Day nearly 48 years ago to join a civil rights protest in her hometown of Vicksburg, Miss., she had a feeling she wouldn’t be coming right back. Shields, who is visiting her daughter, Johnnie Cox, and granddaughter, Tammy Moore, both of Beach Park, is one of a dwindling number of people who lived through the most tumultuous years of the civil rights struggle in the U.S. … Read More
