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Rosa
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Beautiful.
I did not realize that it took almost a year of protests, by thousands of other citizens of Montgomery, for Mrs. Parks' 'no' to get the Supreme Court to say that segregation is wrong, not just in schools but on buses, too.
Giovanni portrays Mrs. Parks as a seamstress tired of discrimination, unlike the housekeeper tired of work that I grew up thinking of her. The author also portrays her as new to civic disobedience, but I thought that I had learned that she had been advised ahead of time to be on the lookout for this kind of opportunity.
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I did not realize that it took almost a year of protests, by thousands of other citizens of Montgomery, for Mrs. Parks' 'no' to get the Supreme Court to say that segregation is wrong, not just in schools but on buses, too.
Giovanni portrays Mrs. Parks as a seamstress tired of discrimination, unlike the housekeeper tired of work that I grew up thinking of her. The author also portrays her as new to civic disobedience, but I thought that I had learned that she had been advised ahead of time to be on the lookout for this kind of opportunity.
No notes, bibliography, or other extra matter.
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May 20, 2024 06:39PM
Yes, I always heard she was tired, her feet hurt, she sat down in the front of the bus. This book (and the true story) shows she worked as a seamstress in a department store. Her feet weren't sore, it was her soul that was tired. She was tired of giving in. That was the one big takeaway I got from this biography. That and the women who organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott. I swear I never heard that story before either but we didn't do a lot of 20th century history in school. The AP History exam only covered up to the 1860s and no teacher ever had time to teach all the way to the end of the textbook (which still thought Ronald Reagan was president. He died less than 10 years later.)
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