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Admirable Women
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On Dec 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, AL. A veteran NAACP activist, she was arrested and fined. Her defiance sparked the 381-day bus boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., forcing a SCOTUS ruling that ended bus segregation.🧵 #CivilRights

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LnchL80
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she was trained at highlander research and education center. most good movements in the us have roots there. i know this because i spent time there in the 90s. share.google/bLEr6Vk8Z9pB...

share.googleHighlander Research and Education CenterWith great sorrow, love, and respect, we mourn the sudden loss of our Co-Executive Director Vonda McDaniel, who passed June 30, 2026. Our deepest condolences are with her family, her labor community, and all who knew and loved her.
keen44.bsky.social
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Rosa Park’s refusal to give up her seat on the bus led to a bus boycott that had people voting against segregation with their feet. So, it’s time for you to vote with a ballot. If you know things are wrong, vote to make them right. (Not right but correct. Lean left!)

Admirable Women
@admirablewomen.bsky.social

After the boycott, death threats forced her to move to Detroit, where she spent decades working for US Rep. John Conyers and fighting for nationwide racial and economic justice. Rosa Parks died #OTD in 2005 & was the first woman in American history to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.