SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION
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Question
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Martin Luther King
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Rosa Parks
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Oscar Romero
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Detailed explanation-1: -Today marks the anniversary of Rosa Parks’ decision to sit down for her rights on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, putting the effort to end segregation on a fast track. Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, after she refused to give up her seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger.
Detailed explanation-2: -At age 15, on March 2, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman. Colvin was motivated by what she had been learning in school about African American history and the U.S. Constitution.
Detailed explanation-3: -A full nine months before Rosa Parks’s famous act of civil disobedience, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin is arrested on March 2, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus.