-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interestingly, Rosa Parks was not the first to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, but the most famous. If I recall correctly from an article I read, there was a 15 year-old girl who did so, but the NAACP did not want to use her to publicize the issue as she was pregnant at the time (unmarried).
In any case, the most remarkable aspect of this issue besides Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat, was that a 26 year-old Martin Luther King took his first Minister job in the nearby Dexter Avenue Baptist Church at that time. He could potentially have taken a job in Atlanta, Georgia, and one wonders how much different history would have been. Vernon Johns, pastor in the Church before MLK, paved the way for the civil rights struggle in Montgomery which MLK launched with others from the Church basement. The rest as they say is history. See picture of the Church, http://www.dexterkingmemorial.org/history/. A few blocks from the church is the State Legislature and Governor's mansion (or former mansion - I cannot remember). There is now a Civil Rights Memorial close by. Regards, George
