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On December 1 1955 a forty two year old African American woman was ordered to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to white passengers. When she had paid for her ticket, her seat was not in the “whites only� section of the bus, but as the bus had filled with white passengers, the driver had moved the demarcation sign further back, placing her squarely outside of the rows of seats reserved for “people of colour.� Then he told her, and four other people, to move. Three of them obeyed, but Rosa Parks refused. After a warning the driver called the police and Parks was arrested. This small act of defiance resulted in a human rights movement that changed the face of the United States and impacted the whole world. And it sounded a call to a young minister, who was relatively new in town, named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The driver’s request was not new. Many black passengers, including Rosa Parks, had heard similar orders in the past and complied. But that day something changed. For a long time Parks had believed that segregation was both unjust and destructive. She was involved with organisations working to get laws and practices changed. But, somehow that day her belief moved to a new place. She started about these issues in a deeper, more intense way, and it motivated her to a new, effective action. In a word, this quiet, timid woman discovered . (Read more about the challenging and fascinating story of Rosa Parks at Wikipedia here.)
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