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truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:47 PM Dec 2014

Today is 59th Anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to sit

In the back of the bus.

Her arrest and the reaction of the African American community to it became the beginning of a historic bus boycott.





Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience
December 1, 1955
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.

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Today is 59th Anniversary of Rosa Parks' refusal to sit (Original Post) truedelphi Dec 2014 OP
K&R for the courageous Rosa Parks! Rhiannon12866 Dec 2014 #1
Thank you, Rosa Parks, for having the courage to resist! csziggy Dec 2014 #2
Good for Rosa Parks! mnhtnbb Dec 2014 #3

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
2. Thank you, Rosa Parks, for having the courage to resist!
Mon Dec 1, 2014, 05:58 PM
Dec 2014

And thank you to all the other people who put themselves on the line with the Montgomery bus boycott. They all tried to make our country a better place.

Now we have to keep working for it to be that better place.

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