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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience Dec. 1, 1955
This day in history: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white patron in Montgomery, Alabama. The event touched off the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the major events in the Civil Rights Movement.
Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_parks_1.html
Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed, or rather, sat down for what she believed. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks, an African American, was tired after a long day of work and decided to take a seat on the bus on her ride home. Because she sat down and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, she was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black people to relinquish seats to white people when the bus was full. (Blacks also had to sit at the back of the bus.) Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system. It also led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation. Who was Rosa Parks, the woman who helped spark the civil rights movement of the 1960s?
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http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_parks_1.html
Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed, or rather, sat down for what she believed. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks, an African American, was tired after a long day of work and decided to take a seat on the bus on her ride home. Because she sat down and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, she was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black people to relinquish seats to white people when the bus was full. (Blacks also had to sit at the back of the bus.) Her arrest sparked a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system. It also led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation. Who was Rosa Parks, the woman who helped spark the civil rights movement of the 1960s?
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Rosa Parkss official arrest report:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/01/rosa-parkss-official-arrest-report-she-refused-to-give-bus-seat-to-white-man-58-years-ago-today/
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Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience Dec. 1, 1955 (Original Post)
Coyotl
Dec 2013
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Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)1. kick
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)2. Obama on the bus
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)3. RNC tweet announced end of racism in America today
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)8. Twitter mockery forces Republicans to clarify that Rosa Parks didn't actually end racism
Twitter mockery forces Republicans to clarify that Rosa Parks didn't actually end racism
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/02/1259533/-Twitter-mockery-forces-Republicans-to-clarify-that-Rosa-Parks-didn-t-actually-end-racism
When this black professor's white students got her reprimanded for discussing race.
When barely-literate Hunger Games viewers saw Rue was black & got mad or stopped caring she died
RNC: "And tomorrow we remember the Roberts Court's bold stand and its role in fighting to stop people like Rosa Parks from voting."
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,002 posts)10. Reublicans can be such klutzes.
countryjake
(8,554 posts)4. Thanks for the reminder!
and the awesome pic, too!
K&R!
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)5. Boy..Now there was a Lady to be admired ! Courage and intelligence.
I would have loved to have talked to her.
Cha
(297,253 posts)6. Mahalo Coyotl..
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)7. The day I turned two years old
We haven't progressed nearly as much as we should have by now...
Omaha Steve
(99,646 posts)9. K&R!