Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p>Dec 1 1955, 69 years ago:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RosaParks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RosaParks</span></a> refused to give up her bus seat and became a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> icon</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrowdervGayle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrowdervGayle</span></a> ruled public transport <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>segregation</span></a> unconstitutional in 1956, but Rosa was not party to it- her case was stuck in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/courts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>courts</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lawyer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lawyer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FredGray" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FredGray</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NAACP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NAACP</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThurgoodMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThurgoodMarshall</span></a> used earlier cases of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blackwomen</span></a> refusing to give up their seats for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Federal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Court</span></a> action:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClaudetteColvin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClaudetteColvin</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaryLouiseSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MaryLouiseSmith</span></a></p><p>Ancient history?</p><p>Fred, Claudette and Mary are all alive today</p>