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Rosa Parks

On December 1st 1955 a woman by the name of Rosa parks had gotten on the bus. She sat in the fifth row which was the first row of the "colored section". The custom for blacks getting on the bus was for them to pay there fair and the re-enter the bus from the back and sometime the driver would just drive off before they could even re-enter the bus. The bus began to fill with whites; the driver had asked some blacks to move back. Three moved back but Rosa stayed. Then the buss driver said to her if she was going to move. She replied to him "no I am not "(quote taken from quiet strength parks page 23) then she was told well that he was going to have to call the police and have them arrest her and she replied "you may go on and do that" (dove rita " on the bus with rosa parks www.time.com date of interenet publication not given went to sight 3/30/05 www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html).

On the weekend of December 3 and 4th Ralph Abernathy and martin Luther king......


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