Maybe add something about this being exactly 60 years ago? On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Michael Guss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello everyone, > > Here's is some proposed social media for this morning. Thank you for > reviewing. > > > Fb: On this day in 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to > obey a bus driver's order to give up her seat in the "colored" section to a > white passenger, after the white section was filled. Parks' act of defiance > and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil > Rights Movement and became an international icon of resistance to racial > segregation. > *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks>* > > Fb: "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, > but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I > usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some > people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only > tired I was, was tired of giving in." On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks > refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and helped spur > the modern Civil Rights Movement. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks > > t: On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks became an icon of resistance to racial > segregation. http://buff.ly/1NomXGD > > Will use this PD image in tweet: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#/media/File:Rosaparks.jpg > > > > > -- > Michael Guss > Research Analyst > Wikimediafoundation.org > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WPZeroPetition> and Video Content Producer Wikimedia Foundation [email protected] https://donate.wikimedia.org/
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