History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1855 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Rosa Parks
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The idea
On December first, nineteen fifty-five, Rosa Parks, secretary of the Montgomery NAACP, refused to give her bus seat to a White man and was arrested.
In practice
A fine of ten dollars plus four dollars in costs, as Digital History records.
Where people slip
The Yawp says she was not the first to protest by staying seated, but the first around whom Montgomery's activists rallied.
Your place on the trail
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