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.”

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    • makotech222 [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      associating usernames with ip addresses probably not good lol

        • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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          9 months ago

          Most private trackers require you to register with your "real" ip address, but we could buck that trend. That said, I always think it's best to separate legal but distasteful-to-the-feds forum posting from enterprises like file-sharing that are explicitly against the law. Because file sharing rings get busted pretty often and I'd rather hexbear not be taken down.

          • buckykat [none/use name]
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            9 months ago

            Wow that just further validates my decision not to bother trying to get into any private trackers because they're a bunch of gatekeeping fart smelling nerds

      • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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        9 months ago
        1. Limited user numbers means seeds would dry up pretty quickly for rare files and even some popular ones.
        2. Private trackers typically keep a lot of info on their users (such as a snatch list which lists the things I've legally or illegally downloaded) that I'd rather not give to a site that also has a politically subversive/marginalized culture.
        3. This is the big one: starting a fundamentally illegal enterprise gives the feds a legitimate reason to shut us down and possibly to arrest users/mods/admins. Sharing a link to a torrent site or two doesn't do that, but us hosting the torrent/magnet links and facilitating it does.

        Safe harbor and :freeze-peach: are protecting us for now.