This is one of the most historic moments in U.S. history ever captured by a photographer:
This woman was the spark that started a fire that didn’t stop until the entire country was changed for the better. She started it herself. She didn’t consult with the ACLU; she didn’t call the TV stations first and put out a press release. She was “tired,” she said, and wasn’t going to stand up just because the man who wanted her seat had white skin. She knew that the previous year two women had been arrested for doing the same thing, and all that resulted was a stain on their police record. When I am (hopefully) 92 years old myself, if her name is not still in every elementary school history book in this country, then the nation itself will have failed to be worth living in.
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