"On this day in 1955" change to "60 years ago today," On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Victor Grigas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe add something about this being exactly 60 years ago? > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Michael Guss <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Here's is some proposed social media for this morning. Thank you for >> reviewing. >> >> >> Fb: On this day in 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to >> obey a bus driver's order to give up her seat in the "colored" section to a >> white passenger, after the white section was filled. Parks' act of defiance >> and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil >> Rights Movement and became an international icon of resistance to racial >> segregation. >> *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks>* >> >> Fb: "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, >> but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I >> usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some >> people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only >> tired I was, was tired of giving in." On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks >> refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and helped spur >> the modern Civil Rights Movement. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks >> >> t: On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks became an icon of resistance to racial >> segregation. http://buff.ly/1NomXGD >> >> Will use this PD image in tweet: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks#/media/File:Rosaparks.jpg >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Michael Guss >> Research Analyst >> Wikimediafoundation.org >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Social-media mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media >> >> > > > -- > > *Victor Grigas* > Storyteller <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WPZeroPetition> and > Video Content Producer > Wikimedia Foundation > [email protected] > https://donate.wikimedia.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Social-media mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/social-media > > -- Michael Guss Research Analyst Wikimediafoundation.org [email protected]
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