Dec. 1, 1955. Early evening. A public bus pulls to a stop and a sensibly dressed woman in her forties gets on. She carries herself erectly, despite having spent the day bent over an ironing board in a dingy basement tailor shop. Her feet are swollen, her shoulders ache. She sits in the first row of the Coloured section and watches quietly as the bus fills with riders. Until the driver orders her to give her seat to a white passenger. The woman utters a single word that ignites one of the most important civil rights protests of the twentieth century. The word is "No".
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:50:29 +0000
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