Rosa Parks (NBM Comics Biographies)

Rosa Parks (NBM Comics Biographies)Montgomery, Alabama, December 1, 1955: at the end of the working day, 42 year old Rosa Parks, a black leather dressmaker, takes bus 2857, heading home. She sits in a center row, but when a white passenger gets on after a few stops, the driver asks her to get up to give him her seat, as required by the rules. Rosa knows them well: the blacks sit in the back, the whites in front, while the center seats are mixed and can only be used if all the others

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