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I don't know why someone voted you down, but I voted you up. In fact, I was going to post a similar argument if you had not already done so. Here's another exa
by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
I don't know why someone voted you down, but I voted you up. In fact, I was going to post a similar argument if you had not already done so.
Here's another example: Rosa Parks, who after more than a decade of involvement in the civil rights movement decided to put herself into the spotlight to challenge discriminatory seating practices in the Montgomery, Alabama bus system. It's important to note that she was not acting in a vacuum but as the public face of a large, broad-based social justice movement.
Her disobedience and subsequent arrest sparked an organized bus boycott and related direct actions that lasted over a year, spurred a federal legal challenge and ultimately resulted in a court order striking down the bus policy.
Side note: a young Baptist minister at the time, Martin Luther King got his start as a civil rights activist through his participation organizing the Bus Boycott.