Little did the 42-year-old know that her act would help end segregation laws in the South.” “Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus. Here is US news organisation CNN’s crude take on December 1 2018: “It was on this day in 1955 when a simple act of defiance elevated a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, into a pivotal symbol in America’s civil rights movement. Taught in schools in the US and Britain, mythologised on the left and celebrated across popular culture, from Outkast’s 1998 hip-hop single Rosa Parks to the 2018 Doctor Who episode titled Rosa, her story will be very familiar to Morning Star readers. The same month a new statue honouring the civil rights icon was unveiled in Alabama’s state capital, Montgomery. IN December an exhibition about the life of Rosa Parks opened at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
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