They established precedent in small areas, and worked to expand that precedent. The reality is that NAACP pursued a very successful legal strategy over a very long time period, attacking segregation laws in a piecemeal fashion. That's a sort of "anti-myth" that's still a myth. The point is that it's a slur against the NAACP, and a simple factual error, to say that they had turned away prior protestors. That's not really an issue, and why should it be? Anyone who thinks that it detracts from the mythology of Rosa Parks hasn't really got a grasp on how Supreme Court quality test cases come about. The issue raised by Katahon is NOT whether or not Rosa Parks somehow worked to get her case heard, or if her selection was due to her activism, or whatever. That's manifestly untrue, as they actually litigated her case all the way to the Supreme Court and won. The point is that the article claimed something that was simply false, namely that the NAACP had turned away Irene Morgan. I think you all missed the point, and I edited the article to try to help, but I'm not at all sure that my framing of the issue is right, either. Wikipedia can help change that with more information about things than your average encyclopedia - BCorr ¤ Брайен 01:19, (UTC) It isn't well known - like so much history, it's taught as if events occurs almost haphazardly, rather than people organizing for social change. Jmabel 01:13, (UTC) It's absolutely true. See also for Rosa Parks being at the Highlander School. She studied at the Highlander School, which I see lacks an article, see. I've never heard the story elsewhere, but if it's verifiable, IMO it is important to the article. NPR has described Rosa Parks's activist training before the bus event, and her planning it, rather than just being so tired that on the spur of the moment civil disobedience felt more attractive than complying. I assume Outkast are some kind of punk band, and they either made a song with her name in it or they used her in a video, or referred to her something else. It refers to some lawsuit about Outkast being dropped, but doesn't explain how their was a lawsuit in the first place. The section on Outkast lawsuit is completely useless. 1.Okay i know all of you think that this wasnt a serious case but, i belive it is considering that they are both african americans and she helped make them free. Here are 13 things about Rosa Parks you should know. Her courage and acts of bravery are something that doesn’t come around very often. Parks was a fighter, a revolutionary, and a woman who stood up for what was right in a time when to do so was to risk your life. While the picture we sometimes have of Rosa Parks is that of a woman who sort of found herself in the middle of the civil rights movement, there is much more to her than that. Parks was arrested and charged with violating the segregation law of the Montgomery City code. When the bus driver, James Blake, threatened to call the police, Parks politely told him, "You may do that." And so he did. She wasn’t just a woman who was exhausted, but a woman who was tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. After being told to get up and give her seat to a white man, Parks decided enough was enough. Parks, an assistant tailor in Montgomery, Alabama, took the 2857 bus on the Cleveland Avenue line home on Dec. 1, 1955, Parks became part of a movement to end the bus segregation of the South known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and secured her place in American history as the mother of the civil rights movement. If she were still alive, Rosa Parks would be 102 years old today.
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