The Montgomery Bus Boycott | Equal Justice Initiative

Nearly every Black resident in Montgomery refused to ride city buses. They walked, biked, took taxis, carpooled, and even rode mules for 382 days.

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¿Fue Rosa Parks la primera en negarse a ceder su asiento?

La historia oficial suele simplificar la rebeldía, pero meses antes de Parks, una joven de quince años llamada Claudette Colvin hizo exactamente lo mismo en Montgomery. Colvin fue arrestada y maltratada, pero los líderes del movimiento por los derechos civiles buscaron un perfil "más adecuado" y menos polémico para encabezar la protesta legal, eligiendo finalmente la imagen de Rosa Parks. Este hecho demuestra que incluso en la lucha por la justicia, la estrategia y la imagen pública se calculan con una frialdad casi quirúrgica, dejando a los verdaderos pioneros en las notas al pie de los libros de texto.

— S.P. Filósofa Urbana

#RosaParks #HistoriaReal #Montgomery #DerechosCiviles #DatoCurioso

👥 Des voix qui ont fait bouger les choses.

📖 Le 1er décembre 1955, Rosa Parks refuse de céder sa place dans un bus.

Avec son discours “I have a dream”, Martin Luther King Jr. porte un message d’égalité, de justice et de paix.

Angela Davis s’engage, elle, contre le racisme, les inégalités sociales et les oppressions.

✊🏻 Trois parcours, une même volonté : faire évoluer les mentalités.

🌊 Sur Wave, on donne aussi la parole.

#WaveRadio #RosaParks #MartinLutherKing #AngelaDavis #Histoire

#MartinLutherKingjr spoke these words on December 5, 1955, at Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, #Alabama. Days earlier, #RosaParks had been arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. King, just 26 years old at the time, addressed the crowd at the first mass meeting of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in what was one of his first major public speeches.
#NoKings

the word ''illegal''

#fuckborders #rosaparks #imigration #disrupt #protest #blm #uspol #law #ethics #personhood
thnx to @AnarchoMemes for sharing

15-year-old #ClaudetteColvin refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, AL, bus on #ThisDayInHistory in 1955, nine months before #RosaParks did it. The judge dropped two of the charges, busting her only for 'assault' during her arrest so an appeal could not affect #segregation.
She was called the mother of the civil rights movement. #RosaParks

@loveshutterbug, Black Royalty, shared the text and images below.

Back when my daughter, Charlotte Adventure, was about 3 years old, I did a photo series of my daughter portraying important Black [Women] through history.

For a toddler, she ATE THIS UP! Here she is as the great #SojournerTruth, #MadamCJWalker, and #RosaParks

#blackwomen #92percent #blackhistory #blackartists #blackphotographers #blackmastodon

Rosa Parks is known as the "Mother of the Freedom Movement" for her courgeous actions during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955-1956. #blackpioneers #blackwomen #RosaParks

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Rosa Louise Parks, Mother of the Freedom Movement

#OTD Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (Feb 4, 1913 - Oct 24, 2005). Civil rights movement activist known as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement” for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus ...

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Americans honoured Black History Month by celebrating Rosa Parks' birthday today. Even Donald Trump posted a touching memorial to her this morning. Nah, just kidding, he's still a racist bumhat. evrimagaci.org/gpt/cities-n... #rosaparks #blackhistorymonth #donaldtrump #uspoli #canpoli #cdnpoli

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