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from ROSA PARKS: MY STORY
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically . . . No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was a seamstress who was sitting in the ‘Colored Section’ of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 when the driver told her to give up her seat to
a white man because the ‘Whites Only’ section of the bus was full. She refused. She became the subject of a court case, and the inspiration for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a beacon of the Civil Rights Movement, and a symbol of the resistance to racial segregation. Sometimes an act of rebellion can be as simple as staying in your seat.
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