FCC's Clyburn Delivers Parker Ethics in Telecommunications Lecture

Federal Communications Commission member Mignon Clyburn presented the Parker Lecture in Ethics and Telecommunications. She kept the audience spellbound with her description of people who "lost their place in history" when the media barons of South Carolina conspired to engage in a "media blackout." She described the widely-unknown story of Sara Mae Fleming who also refused to give up her seat on a bus in the 1950s, but her story was not told because the mainstream media was closed to stories of civil rights activists.