> In shorter words, Miss Rosa Parks's decision to stay in a forward seat was the first move in a planned boycott of the bus company and the city law, a campaign organised long before by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and run by a young, bland, handsome black parson, name of Martin Luther King Jr, who while I was in Montgomery, flew in from Atlanta twice a week to buy little vans for use by the boycotters.
On that note, I'll just mention I think that I read a short book called "Mutual Aid" by Dean Spade that really gave me some more ideas for what a world looks like where communities are really taking care of each other and don't have so much emphasis on doing everything yourself.
I didn't downvote and it's not the guidelines[0] but generally hackernews doesn't look kindly upon witty or funny replies and tends to emphasize replies that add spread knowledge and encourage discussion.
TIL the guidelines also say:
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> In shorter words, Miss Rosa Parks's decision to stay in a forward seat was the first move in a planned boycott of the bus company and the city law, a campaign organised long before by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and run by a young, bland, handsome black parson, name of Martin Luther King Jr, who while I was in Montgomery, flew in from Atlanta twice a week to buy little vans for use by the boycotters.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/04/9