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...white passenger could sit down. Parks refused, and the police were called to take her to jail. Two hours after her arrest, she was released on $100 bail. By midnight, a plan had been hatched for a citywide bus boycott, which a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr. would later be elected to direct. The boycott lasted 381 days, until the Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was illegal; its success ignited the modern civil rights movement. "When I declined to give up my seat, it was not that day or bus in particular," Parks later told...
...opportunities for older thespians is vast. It includes amateur groups that have no budget, like the Atherton Players in Alhambra, Calif., who perform unmemorized scripts written by their leader, Pat Lane, 77. They put on three or four plays a year for their fellow residents at the Atherton Baptist Home, a retirement community. Lane's one rule is that every member of the troupe--even those with limited mobility--be treated equally. "Whoever comes to rehearsals is guaranteed a part," she says...
...classiest and most relaxed evenings of ballet around. Friday, March 14 and Saturday, March 15 at 8 p.m., and Sunday, March 16 at 4 p.m. Runs through Sunday, April 13. Tickets $28, available by phone (617) 354-7467. Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 400 Harvard Street...
After a few months, Russ and company settled into the old Cambridge Baptist Church...
...busy weekend concluded yesterday morning with an appearance at Memorial Church by Kim, who is senior pastor of the 15,000 member Suwon Central Baptist Church in Seoul...