SARAH KEYS EVANS The Power of Quiet Courage
SARAH KEYS EVANS: The Power of Quiet Courage
By Amy Nathan with Sarah Keys Evans, authors
Jermaine Powell, illustrator /Fall 2025
North Carolina Office of Archives and History, Fall 2025
https://www.dncr.nc.gov/about-us/history/division-historical-resources/historical-publications/childrens-books
Sarah Keys Evans wasn't someone anyone thought would spend a night in a jail cell—or change the world. But trouble came Sarah's way in 1952, at a North Carolina bus station. There, dressed in her Women's Army Corps uniform, she was arrested for not moving to the back of a bus—three years before that happened to another Black woman, Rosa Parks. The Power of Quiet Courage tells how Sarah stood up for what's right and helped end that kind of unfairness. Others have now honored her by creating a monument that calls her a "Trailblazer for Justice."