Introducing 7053
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for civil disobedience. She rightly refused to give up her seat on a public bus for a white passenger. That moment is etched in history as it was the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The boycott ended after 13 months, when the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
Introducing High Society
Agnes Gund knows the power of art. She is the president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art and the founder of Studio in a School, a non-profit she created in 1977 when New York City budget cuts greatly reduced arts classes in public schools. I first learned about her desire to connect art and criminal justice reform in 2017, when she sold a Roy Lichtenstein from her private collection to fund a new initiative.