NEW YORK -- Bus systems in the city and suburbs will be among dozens nationwide to pay tribute to civil rights icon Rosa Parks on Thursday, the 50th anniversary of the day she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white man.
On Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses in New York City and Long Island, the seat behind the driver will be symbolically reserved for the late Parks, whose act of disobedience and subsequent arrest prompted a bus boycott and proved a major turning point in the country's civil rights movement. [my em]
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We've come a long way but there's a LOT more to do.
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