"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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"Lionel" wrote in message
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Une grande dame.

**Indeed. One very brave and dignified American.


Her action and the following bus strike were the beginning of the end for
the segregationists. If only the rest of the civil rights movement had been
made up of people as dignified.

This is the way the the whole movenment should have been dealt with, in
simple non-violent action that hurt the racists in their wallet. Plessy v
Ferguson was another case that showed that segregation would have died of
natural causes had the government not inervened in ways it shouldn't have.