Rosa Parks, one of the most famous figures of the American Civl Rights Movement, died Monday evening at 92 years of age.
We all know her from her refusal to sit in the back of the bus in 1955. That helped spark what has become known as the Civil Rights Movement. The Montgomery bus boycott was started and for over a year the black citizens didn’t use the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott ended when the Supreme Court ruled the bus segregation as unconstitutional.
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Article comments
1 - Al Barger
Infamous? That's a curious choice of language.
2 - -E
heh you're right. i was thinking more of that she was considered a criminal at the time. not that she is one now. i should have more carefuly considered all the meanings of the word there. oops.
3 - Bob A. Booey
How PC of you, Al.
Yeah, Erin, take a note from Al's post on Rosa and use words like "Negro," "ingrate," "morally bankrupt" and "self-righteous" instead, not "infamous."
How dare you.
That is all.