11/02/2015
Catalyst: Somebody or something that makes a change happen or brings about an event.
Catalyst: Rosa Parks! Are you a catalyst?
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her act inspired the Montgomery bus boycott; the event historians call the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
"We went on undisturbed until about the second or third stop when some white people boarded the bus and left one man standing. And when the driver noticed him standing, he told us to stand up and let him have those seats. He referred to them as front seats. And when the other three people -- after some hesitancy -- stood up, he wanted to know if I was going to stand up, and I told him I was not. And he told me he would have me arrested."
“He didn't move the bus any further than where we were, and went out of the bus. Other people got off -- didn't any white people get off -- but several of the black people got off.”
"I was arrested on a Thursday evening, I was 42 years old, and on Friday evening is when they had the meeting at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, where Dr. Martin Luther King was the pastor."
"We set a meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church on the evening of December 5th; because December 5th was the day the people stayed off in large numbers and did not ride the bus."
"When they found out that one day's protest had kept people off the bus, it came to a vote and unanimously, it was decided that they would not ride the buses anymore until changes for the better were made."
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