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On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Her action was not the first of its kind. Irene Morgan in 1946, and Sarah Louise Keys in 1955,[2] had won rulings before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, respectively, in the area of interstate bus travel. Nine months before Parks refused to give up her seat, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to move from her seat on the same bus system. In New York City, in 1854, Lizzie Jennings engaged in similar activity, leading to the desegregation of the horsecars and horse-drawn omnibuses of that city. [3] But unlike these previous individual actions of civil disobedience, Parks' action sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
I'd noticed the google logo out of the corner of my earlier this morning, but it looked kind of ugly and cluttered and it didn't pay it any further notice, that should've been my first clue though that today was an important anniversary. Now I know.
