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Friday, February 04, 2022

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Rosa Parks' Day

On December 1, 1955, African American seamstress Rosa Parks was travelling in a Montgomery City bus when the bus driver asked her to vacate her seat for a white man. The driver's request was standard practice of racial segregation in buses at the time. Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat on the grounds of fairness, freedom and equality. As a result, she was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation, known as the "Jim Crow" laws. She appealed her conviction and formally challenged the legality of segregation. At the same time, civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King Jr, boycotted the Montgomery bus system.

The boycott lasted for 381 days, into December 1956, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the segregation law was unconstitutional and the Montgomery buses should be integrated. This boycott kick-started other civil rights protests throughout the U.S. Over the years, the Rosa Parks bus has become a symbol of the fight for equal rights. It has been fully restored and is now displayed in the Henry Ford Museum. Rosa Parks' Day, on February 4, is also known as the Day of Courage.






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4 comments:

  1. JiELFebruary 04, 2022 10:49 AM

    !955 and still the equality rights aren't achieved in ALL the states.

    Saw the TV biography of Eleonor Roosevelt and her action to stop segregation in the 30's I think if I remember, which didn't stop the KKK and other racist people to mistreat black Americans.

    2022 nothing much have changed as the RED states are gerrymandering to affect black voters rights.
    With the future black woman to be nominate at the SCOTUS, again those Repugs are making bad comments that only show how racist they still are.

    Human are born equal as said in your Constitution but «which humans» ??

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  2. taurusd2February 04, 2022 12:36 PM

    Sadly the wild-eyed groups today do not want history taught so people won't know the facts and truth about what happened. Along with media entertainment and ignorance, the populace will be "bread and circus" intelligence and behavior.

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  3. SickoRickoFebruary 04, 2022 5:16 PM

    taurusd2 - They're easier to control that way.

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  4. uptonkingFebruary 05, 2022 4:34 AM

    I've never heard Claudette Colvin's story. Interesting.

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Nice you must be or delete your ass I will.

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