Rosa Parks · every age
What was Rosa Parks doing at 42?
A seamstress of 42 who kept her seat and started a movement
- c. 1955
Attended a desegregation workshop at Highlander Folk School
Two weeks in Tennessee at 42, her first experience of an integrated setting.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Dec 1, 1955
Refused to give up her bus seat and was arrested, at 42
She had finished a day's work as a department store seamstress. She later said she was tired of giving in, not physically tired.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Dec 5, 1955
Convicted and fined; the bus boycott began that day
A 26-year-old pastor named Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen to lead it.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 42
Portrait: Photo: Unknown author (November 1956), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
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