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Sixty plus years ago, when your parents or grandparents were probably about your age

right now, a 42-year-old black seamstress from Montgomery, Alabama named Rosa Parks boarded

a bus.

During that time, Jim Crow laws required black people to sit in the back of the bus.

If you can believe that.

This was carried about by a line that separated white passengers in the front of the bus and

the colored passengers in the back.

When an African-American passenger boarded the bus, they had to go to the front to pay their

fare and then they had to get off the bus and re-board at the back door.

As absolutely absurd and inhumane as those rules were, it was rare that anybody actually

stood up against them.

As the bus, Rosa, had boarded, continued on its route.

It began to fill with white passengers.

Eventually, the bus was full and the driver noticed that several white passengers were

standing in the aisle.

The bus driver stopped the bus and moved the sign separating the two sections back

one row, asking four black passengers who were previously seated in the colored section

to now give up their seats.

Three of the other black passengers on the bus complied with the driver, but parks refused

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