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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

“The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.”

#OnThisDay, 1 Dec 1955, Rosa Parks does *not* give up her seat on the bus for a white passenger, and is arrested. Her refusal is a key moment in the American civil rights movement.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Mugshot of Rosa Parks after her arrest. She is a black woman with glasses.
Mugshot of Rosa Parks after her arrest. She is a black woman with glasses.
Mugshot of Rosa Parks after her arrest. She is a black woman with glasses.
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@CarveHerName@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Parks was not the first Black woman to be arrested for refusing to move.

Irene Morgan had refused in Virginia in 1946.
Lillie Mae Bradford refused in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1951.
Sarah Louise Keyes refused in Carolina in 1952.

Claudette Colvin, Aurelia Browder, Susie McDonald and Mary Louise Smith were all arrested in Montgomery months before Parks.

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