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Next Thursday, the 40 Anniversary of the Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream …” Address. Bob Maddams walks in the footsteps of the heroes of citizens’ rights in the Ride to Freedom Tower
There is a street corner in Montgomery, Alabama, where the two defining moments in American history took place. On one side of the road, in 1955, a small black woman named Rosa Parks on board a public bus in urban areas. If it is short on his shoulders, as they more on the bus, they would have seen the building in winter, a fairly large statements Antebellum case where, in 1861, the newly elected president of the USA Konföderierten of America, Jefferson Davis sent a telegram to its forces in Charleston, South Carolina, the command to open fire in the union garrison at Fort Sumter.
It was the action began the American Civil War. Four years later, in America, slavery was abolished, but nearly a century, many black Americans live in the deep south feels that little has changed. The reconstruction has simply swapped slavery to segregation, and many black Americans in Montgomery believes that the greatest indignity of all was the separation, city buses. Who knows what’s happening in the parks of the mind, when they were aboard their countries of origin of these night buses during the year 1955 after a long day on the purchase of the house, where she worked as a seamstress.
Like all black Americans, she received on the front, it pays the price the driver, then had to suffer the indignity of departure and boarding buses on their backs. She found one of the last remaining seats collapsed and the interior. During the period from moving a few blocks away, life in America, it would be good than ever before. At the next stop, knows more about the passengers, there were more seats, under the laws of the time of separation meant that blacks had to abandon their passengers. Parks said that was their headquarters and promptly rejected. Police were called and was arrested.
The appeal, Davis telegram as a century earlier, turned out the lights spark an explosion in American life. The consequences resulting bus boycott of Montgomery’s black Americans has lasted over a year. He paved the way for the abolition of racial segregation in the south and start for civil rights and voting rights movement and catapulted 26 years, a Baptist minister named Martin Luther King on the international scene.
Not bad for a road of anonymous testimony in a corner of America States the least visited. But it is for you Alabama - it is full of surprises. I heard many stories around the grounds of the park, where she refused to give his resignation, but I believe that nothing motivates more sore feet. Sometimes you can admire the mundane things, to alter the course of history.
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