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...fact was that Rosa Parks got tired of being told to give up her seat on the bus to any white man who happened along, so she got off that bus, to be followed by almost all the blacks in Montgomery, Ala. Thus began modern American civil rights legislation. Or did it start instead with Martin Luther King, who saw where boycotting segregated buses might lead, or with Gandhi, whose example taught King the tactics of civil disobedience? Or rather were the civil rights laws of the 1960s passed because of a general and amorphous sense of national shame...
...Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old Negro seamstress, was ordered by a Montgomery City Lines bus driver to get up and make way for some white passengers. She refused, was arrested and fined $10 under an Alabama law making it a misdemeanor for any person to disobey a bus driver's seating instructions. But that was not the last of the Rosa Parks case: it has since been used to prove that economic reprisal, as advocated against Negroes by the white Citizens' Councils of the South, is a double-edged blade...
...students they represent. A Crimson poll last spring found that only one-third of undergraduates had ever discussed council matters or college policy with their representatives. The council can only react to student grievances through frequent communication, which can identify complaints from repeated fire alarms to erratic shuttle bus service. Another way for the council to affect both current and future student life is to dispense with procedural concerns, which last year consumed a sizable chunk of meetings and produced a 300-page opus on bylaws. It is also imperative that the government remove clauses in its constitution and bylaws...
...Bus Mgr.) Hvd. Glee Club HSA (Bartender) Modern European History...
Vasity Swimming UJA Student Appeal; HPT 135 of Adress and Alen Bus. Assistant; intramunts track, squash, swimming; Griffin Club. Boston Marathons...