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It was not pre-arranged. It just happened that the driver made and demand and I just didn't feel like obeying his demand . . . I was quite tired after spending a full day working.

Source: On her refusal to give up her bus seat; workshop at the Highland Folk School, Monteagle, TN, Mar 1956.
-- Rosa Parks, (Feb 4 1913-2005), US civil rights leader; Her refusal to give up bus seat to a white man initiated a bus boycott and sparked the civil rights movement; won Spingarn, 1978.

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