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• Iconic Images of Human Rights Violations (34): Rosa Parks

  
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  Rosa Parks’ refusal to obey bus driver James Blake’s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger, and her subsequent arrest, is one of the most famous events in the history of the American civil rights movement . Read the whole story here .  Rosa Parks bus diagram ( source ) ...
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• Its Bad Enough We Let Them In School. We Have To Drive Them Back And Forth Too?

  
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  You know the schools are in pretty bad shape when its left to the bus drivers to protect us from the homo invasion . A cell phone video of a Lansing School District bus driver harassing a student about her sexual orientation has legislators, gay activists and anti-bullying advocates crying foul. Oh sure, take the ...
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• Needed: A "Financial" Rosa Parks

  
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  The Fog of Financial MisconductIf the nations most powerful men and women wont call Wall Street to account for its misdeeds -- who will?Maybe its least powerful.After all, it was Rosa Parks, a then-42 year old seamstress, who helped ignite the civil rights movement in 1955 when she refused to give up her bus seat ...
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• December 5 in history

  
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  On December 5: 63 BC  Cicero read the last of his Catiline Orations . 1360 The French Franc was created. 1484   Pope Innocent VIII issued the Summis desiderantes , a papal bull that deputised Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in ...
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• Take a Stand: Give Your Female Character Something to Believe In

  
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  Don’t let your female characters be defined by weakness. Strong characters make history and enduring stories. Fifty-four years ago today, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white man. (You go, girl! Sit down for what you believe in!) Her action set in motion the Montgomery Bus ...
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• Encore post: Rosa Parks, December 1, 1955

  
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  Rosa Parks: “Why do you push us around?” Officer: “I don’t know but the law is the law and you’re under arrest.” From Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Quiet Strength (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1994), page 23. Photo: Mrs. Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama; ...
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• World AIDS Day and Rosa Parks’ Birthday

  
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  December 1 is World AIDS Day.  December 1 is also Rosa Parks’ birthday.  I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the confluence of those dates this past month.  This pondering began when I listened on NPR as people detailed the…
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• Taking A Stand – By Not Getting Up

  
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  Image Source: The Free Dictionary 54 years ago on this day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat (I blogged this exactly a year ago). She was ordered by the bus driver to move to the back of the bus to make room for the white passengers. An excerpt from her autobiography: People always say that I didn’t ...
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• Lesson Plans About Rosa Parks

  
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  Todays document from the National Archives is a sketch of where Rosa Parks was seated on the day she refused to give-up her seat. Along with the sketch, the National Archives has posted a lesson plan using the sketch. The National Archives also posted lesson plans about Jackie Robinson and the Civil Rights ...
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• Rosa Parks Changed History on This Date

  
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  On Thursday December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a seamstress and a volunteer secretary for the NAACP, was sitting in the section of a public bus reserved for black passengers. As she rode, the seats designated for white riders were filled and the driver told her and three other seated black passengers to get up so the ...
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• On This Day in 1955, Rosa Parks Refused to Give Up Her Seat to a White Passenger

  
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• Howard Stern Blasts Rosa Parks, (Defends Claudette Colvin) – AUDIO

  
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  Howard Stern Blasts Rosa Parks, (Defends Claudette Colvin) – AUDIO Laf. This was a take on Rosa Parks I hadn’t heard… who knew? And I thought I was a black belt in African American studies (no bad pun). I had a hard time NOT getting diversity credits in college. $ Related Posts: Howard Stern ...
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• Rosa Parks, Robert Graetz, Liberty and Justice

  
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  Today is the anniversary of the day that Rosa Parks made waves in Montgomery Alabama in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.  What Rosa did that day sparked a movement resulting from pressure that had been building for almost 100 years. African Americans, who had been freed from slavery by ...
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• Sit anywhere on the bus

  
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  Fifty-four years ago today a 42 year old (my current age) woman refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama.   Of course the woman was Rosa Parks: Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, ...
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• This Week (30 November) At Se7en…

  
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  So tomorrow is December and here come the December calendars…About.com’s Calendar.Crayola.comEnchanted Learning.Reading Activity Calendar.Teacher Vision.Here is our weekly picture celebrating Hood #8…And here are a few links for this week:30 November 2009: Mark Twain’s Birthday (1835 – 1910). The complete ...
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• December 1 in history

  
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  On December 1: 1640  End of the Iberian Union : Portugal acclaimed João IV as King of Portugal, thus ending a 60 year period of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg  ( (also called the Philippine Dynasty). 1761 Marie Tussaud , French ...
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• Claudette Colvin: The "Real" Rosa Parks 2

  
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  Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Author Phillip Hoose On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months ...
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• Claudette Colvin: The "Real" Rosa Parks

  
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  claudette-colvin The images above feature Claudette Colvin. The images of her taken on a bus was part of a municipal bus decoration project done in her honor by school children of Portland, Maine. an excerpt from the nytimes From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights ...
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• Thanks for Claudette Colvin

  
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  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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