A decisive action: refusing to give up her seat to a “White”. Several people had dared such a revolt before her, but without the resonance of rebellion evoked by this 42-year-old seamstress. In ultra-racist 1950s America, Martin Luther King gathers his first supporters. The movement for civil rights is set in motion.
“Every person operating a bus line in the city shall provide equal but separate accommodations for white people and negroes on his buses, by requiring the employees in charge (...)
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