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Re: American freedom
Posted By: Nyperold, on host 205.216.76.92
Date: Monday, March 4, 2002, at 20:54:47
In Reply To: Re: American freedom posted by samhael on Monday, March 4, 2002, at 16:56:45:

> I am talking also about injustice that was done less than thirty years ago, in Martin Luther King Jr's time, and about the Woman on the Bus.
> (I do not remember her name, but it was something we were taught of in 20th C. studies: About an African American Woman who refused to move to the back of the bus when white people got on, and hence was arrested, setting the scene for peaceful demonstration.)

Rosa Parks. And it seems like I heard that MLK Jr. studied Mahatma Ghandi's passive resistance movement, although I don't know whether his studies preceded Rosa's action or not. But Rosa pretty much paved the way over here.

> **If I get American History wrong, then understand that I have never formally learnt this, only picked up bits and pieces here and there, mostly by osmosis.
> --SD

Understood. :)

Nyperold

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