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Offline TomSea

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Milwaukee bus system pays tribute to Rosa Parks with an open seat and red rose on every city bus
« on: December 11, 2018, 11:56:23 am »
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Milwaukee bus system pays tribute to Rosa Parks with an open seat and red rose on every city bus
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Milwaukee County Transit System left an open seat and red rose for Rosa Parks on every city bus to honor the civil rights icon.

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Rosa Parks was honored by the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) to mark the anniversary of her brave act of civil disobedience in 1955. Over the weekend, MCTS left an open seat with red rose on it on each city bus to honor Parks, 63 years after her arrest became a milestone in American history.

Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955 after refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks was a seamstress and longtime secretary for the local chapter of the NAACP, and her quiet act of protest inspired a year-long bus boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  In the end, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the segregated seating laws were unconstitutional.

Parks died in 2005 at the age of 92.

Read more at: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/milwaukee-bus-system-leaves-open-seat-and-red-rose-for-rosa-parks-on-every-city-bus/

More reading:

https://www.woodtv.com/news/grand-rapids/the-reason-rosa-parks-stands-in-downtown-grand-rapids/1645897285

https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2018/12/officer-who-watched-rosa-parks-get-arrested-it-affected-more-people-than-any-arrest.html

Wisconsin may have done that for every bus in its system: https://www.newsweek.com/wisconsin-transit-system-honors-rosa-parks-seat-bus-1241742

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Offline Fishrrman

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Re: Milwaukee bus system pays tribute to Rosa Parks with an open seat and red rose on every city bus
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2018, 10:51:18 pm »
The real "story" of Rosa Parks and the bus:
https://tinyurl.com/y7p62zt4

It didn't happen the way you were told it did...
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Re: Milwaukee bus system pays tribute to Rosa Parks with an open seat and red rose on every city bus
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2018, 10:55:53 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on December 11, 2018, 10:51:18 pm
The real "story" of Rosa Parks and the bus:
https://tinyurl.com/y7p62zt4

It didn't happen the way you were told it did...

Yeah, it still pretty much did.  The fact that the NAACP planned for it does not denigrate what she did. 
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Re: Milwaukee bus system pays tribute to Rosa Parks with an open seat and red rose on every city bus
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2018, 11:23:56 pm »
Quote from: Oceander on December 11, 2018, 10:55:53 pm
Yeah, it still pretty much did.  The fact that the NAACP planned for it does not denigrate what she did.

Yeah. It actually does denigrate it. It makes it a fake phony fraud.
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