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"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

Fifty-five years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

It wasn?t because she was tired. ?No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in,? she said later.

Her arrest and conviction for disorderly conduct triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system by blacks that was organized by a 26-year-old Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The boycott led to a court ruling desegregating public transportation in Montgomery, but it wasn't until the 1964 Civil Rights Act that all public accommodations nationwide were desegregated.

Full post as published by the 13th juror on December 01, 2010 (boomark / email).