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1955年12月1日，时年42岁、当裁缝的帕克斯在一辆公共汽车上就座时，一名白人男子走过来，要求她让座。帕克斯拒绝了白人男子的要求。尽管当年早些时候，蒙哥马利就有两名黑人妇女因同样遭遇而被捕。这次也没有例外，帕克斯遭到监禁，并被罚款4美元。她的被捕引发了蒙哥马利市长达381天的黑人抵制公交车运动，组织者是当时仍名不见经传的一名浸礼教牧师马丁·路德·金，这个名字后来被冠以反种族隔离斗士和诺贝尔和平奖得主的荣誉。这场运动的结果，是1956年最高法院裁决禁止公车上的“黑白隔离”；1964年出台的民权法案禁止在公共场所实行种族隔离和种族歧视政策。
“My mother told me to be quiet about what I did,” Ms. Colvin recalled. “She told me: ‘Let Rosa be the one. White people aren’t going to bother Rosa — her skin is lighter than yours and they like her.’ ”
Unlike Mrs. Parks, whose protest was carefully planned, Ms. Colvin was just a 15-year-old who couldn’t stomach the Jim Crow segregation laws one second longer.“Words like ‘mouthy,’ ‘emotional’ and ‘feisty’ were used to describe her.”
Mrs. Parks, on the other hand, was considered “stolid, calm, unflappable,” he said. The final straw: Ms. Colvin became pregnant by a married man.
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