The Washington Post, October 26th, 2005
SHE HAD NO army behind her. The law was against her. Only a few people knew her name. But Rosa Parks's individual act of courage and determination on Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Ala., ultimately changed a way of life, moving the nation closer to fulfilling America's founding principles, rooted in equality, liberty and the intrinsic value of every person. Mrs. Parks didn't have such far-reaching goals in mind when she decided not to give up her bus seat to a white man on that December evening 50 years ago. She was, in her own words, "tired of giving in" to a system of legal and social indignit...
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