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George,
Rosa Parks was featured in considerable detail in some of our quality
papers. As a kid I had read/followed much about her and the many others who
supported her against the awful intensity of segregation in the Southern
States of the USA. I had also closely followed what happened in the USA with
the parallel obscene apartheid in South Africa.
Cornel
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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
ansion - I cannot remember).
There is now a Civil Rights Memorial close by.
Regards,
George
