New film tells story of Sarah E. Ray, Detroit’s other Rosa Parks, kicked off Boblo Boat because she was blackNews / By blackculturalfilm Ray took her case to the NAACP and then-attorney Thurgood Marshall took it the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won, paving the way for desegregation in Brown v. Board of Education. Source: New film tells story of Sarah E. Ray, Detroit’s other Rosa Parks, kicked off Boblo Boat because she was black