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• Thanks for Claudette Colvin

  
  The Ruth Group — Authority: 134
  Nice write up about Claudette Colvin, a young woman who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus — so a white woman wouldn’t have to sit in one of the three other empty seats in the same row — nine months before Rosa Parks, and the prize winning book about her.Phillip [...]
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• Overshadowed By Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Catalyst Finally Recognized

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 633
  From the New York Times: On that supercharged day in 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala., she rode her way into history books, credited with helping to ignite the civil rights movement. But there was another woman, named Claudette Colvin, who refused to be ...
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• NY TIMES: No longer a civil rights footnote - before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin

  
  BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. — Authority: 727
  NY TIMES: No longer a civil rights footnote - before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin: On...
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• Today’s Inspiration 11/23/2009

  
  Black And Married With Kids — Authority: 478
  Each person must live their life as a model for others. -Rosa Parks
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• Idea For Public Service Announcement

  
  Gently Hew Stone — Authority: 124
  Camera opens on a bus interior from the front; passengers settle in as the bus prepares to start moving.  A subtitle shows, “1955.” A new shot gives a close up of a black woman sitting near the front, looking seriously but distractedly out the window.  A voice with a Southern accent off camera says, “You need ...
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• The Montgomery Bus Boycott and My Father

  
  educating alice — Authority: 467
  Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1922, my father Lewis J. Edinger fled with his mother to America at the age of fourteen; his father chose to stay, hoping to ride things out, but was deported and killed. Years later, as a newly minted PhD, my father took whatever jobs he could find; one of those was in Montgomery, ...
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• Global day for climate action

  
  @ltaCITIES | PQ: The People Quotient — Authority: 130
  "My mother was a teacher in a little school, and she believed in freedom and equality for people, and did not have the notion that we were supposed to live as we did, under legally enforced racial segregation. She didnt believe in it." - Rosa Parks | @ltaLINK Global day for climate action ...
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• Ballot Fraud, the Blogosphere, and Fame-Seeking Intellectuals in Russia

  
  El Oso — Authority: 426
  Despite the fact that I only agree with about 10% of what he has to say, Evgeny Morozov is still one of my favorite Twitterers . Dude cracks me up. If you need a 15-minute introduction to what will soon become Evgeny’s first book, his TED talk is a good place to start. Basically, Evgeny used to do pretty much ...
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