Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which success for Southern blacks had been determined since Reconstruction. However, what had not been planned for was the radical change in atmosphere produced by the 1954 Supreme Court decision, the acts of white violence which followed it-in particular, Emmet Till's murder, and the tired feet of Rosa Parks...
...nugget of the present, her stand echoed the tradition of subtle resistance that had characterized the efforts black people have made to obtain justice in America-the quiet violence of ground glass in the master's soup-while simultaneously conveying the continuing injustice and simple pain of the present, Rosa Parks had made her point: NO MORE. She would not be moved. It was a supremely tangible expression, as plain and physical as the way in which she described her motivation, "There was no plan at all. I was tired from shopping. My feet hurt...
PERHAPS if Rosa Parks had not been of "impeccable" character but "had just stepped out of a bar.. Williams suggests that "her attempt (with) her stocking seams twisted," to gain redress against the bus company and the Southern system would have first been thwarted by the Negroes in her own community, for not being exactly the right kind of person it was willing to go to bat for." However, as Williams quotes King, "Fortunately, Mrs. Parks was ideal for the role assigned her by history." And that was to focus the attention of black people, the middle class...
Krasner is charged with making the battling ram used in the January 15, 1970 takeover by the Rosa Luxembourg chapter of SDS at M.I.T...
Prudential-Grace Lines announced that the 300-passenger Santa Rosa and Santa Paula will sail out of New York harbor on their final Caribbean cruises in January, bringing to an even dozen the number of American luxury ships retired over the past three years. Like most former passenger lines, Prudential-Grace will concentrate on freight. Said President Spyros S. Skouras Jr., who merged his Prudential Lines with the Grace Line fleet last December: "It's the foreign-flag cruise ships-they beat us every time...