Rosa parks
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- December 1st 1955 Alabama, U.S.A. Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, took the Montgomery Bus to come back home after a long day of work...
- At that time, buses were divided into 2 sections: the back side for black people and all the rest for white people.
- Rosa was known for invigorating the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Madame, you have to stand up. I can sit down here, you can't!
- I am tired of this unjustice. I am not going to stand up!
- Police department Montgomery, Alabama U.S.A
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- I was not tired physically, Sir… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
- Since she wouldn't give up her seat The bus driver called the cops and she ended up being arrested.
- People boycotted the Montgomery bus system for over a year, 381 days to be exact.
- BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER!
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITY AND HUMAN DIGNITY!!!!
- WHAT WE ASK IS SIMPLE: IMPARTIAL SERVICE FOR ALL!!
- Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens.
- STOP RACIAL DISCRIMINATION NOW!!
- The Supreme Court upheld that ruling of bus segregation in mid-November. The federal decision went into effect on December 20, 1956.
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