Rosa Parks, born on the 4th of February in 1913, was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. U.S. Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white person.
According to historian Dr. Casey Nichols, following this arrest, Parks immediately contacted local NAACP president E.D. Nixon and informed him of her arrest. Within hours, the Women’s Political Council (WPC), formed in 1946 to address the grievances of black bus patrons in Montgomery, sprang into action, printing flyers, phoning potential supporters, and organizing carpools.
The boycott succeeded in 1957 after the Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional. Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement, and she became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.
After the boycott's conclusion, Parks moved to Detroit, Michigan and began working as an assistant to Detroit Congressman John Conyers. She has received numerous honors, including over 40 honorary degrees, the Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, and two NAACP image awards. In 2002, Parks produced a biographical film titled “The Rosa Parks Story.”
"The only tired I was was tired of giving in."
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blue eyed samurai is pretty good but there are some weird things about the chronology and setting
like the trade ban becoming this literally no white people rule: they were allowed in deijima, and fairly well known in living memory. otherwise they were only executed as missionaries/smugglers, im pretty sure shipwrecked euros were still fine.
and further the euro guns being magic and unknown to the shogunate is very silly. euro guns weren't even that good yet, and the shogunate was absolutely familiar with them
The dutch trade was alive and well as you say. Like "Dutch learning"/Rangaku was something you could study and learn basically anything the dutch knew how to make during the edo period. But the Shogun and history is all made up. You shouldn't think of this as set in Japan, but think of it as set in a place that is modeled on Japan. It's like when a fantasy story is set in some unspecific european country. But also it's racist and has bad politics.
also fowler the white dude shouldn't have ditxhed the european garb for the climax? like his whole shtick was westernizing or whatever, dude should've had a louis wig and been armored like a dark souls boss