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53 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. That single act--that led to her arrest and the Montgomery Bus Boycott--made her a symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Here in Los Angeles, the Blue Line Imperial/Wilmington Metro Rail station was dedicated to her in 1998, but today the public transit agency took it a step further, they announced: "It wasn't a bus that started it but a bus was certainly the setting, so it is fitting, then, that Metro Board has declared today--the date Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat to a white male passenger--Rosa Parks Human Rights Day. "
Today Declared as Rosa Parks Human Rights Day
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Glad to know that the Metro Board made this move. It's shocking how few people know that this single act of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat wasn't just a decision made on a whim. It was backed by months and months of organizing, it was planned by many civil rights leaders, Rosa Parks was introduced to the organizing by her husband, and she was chosen or decided to be the one who would make that move on December 1st.
This isn't the way we're taught about Rosa Parks in our schools. I didn't know the truth about it until a few years ago.