Rosa Parksbecame the face of the civil rights movement in the United States of America from a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Steve Jobslaunched Apple (one of the three most valuable companies in the world) from a garage in little Cupertino, California. ...
However, it did spark the Civil Rights Movement as white and Black Americans came together in their fight for equality throughout the 1950s and 1960s. It was the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 – she refused to give up her seat in the Black passenger section on a bus in Montgomery, Alab...
After Plessy was arrested for refusing to move to the black car of the train, his lawyers argued that he had the right to sit anywhere on a train. However, Judge Howard Ferguson said that Louisiana had a right to segregate its trains. ...
And before I’d be a slave, I’d be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord and be free.On the day when she refused to give up her seat on the bus, Parks said, she had no plans to be arrested. She was sitting in the “colored section” of the bus and her only intent...
The effective management of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic depends on the bedrock of rapid and accurate testing to enable promptness in quarantining, contact tracing, epidemiologic characterization, evaluating vaccine response, and stra
as it was the beginning of the last great battle blacks had to fight to gain equal rights with whites. This is what Rosa Parks, whose bold act of defiance helped ignite this boycott to occur. The event with Till was also a catalyst, as it inspired Parks to act with this bold personal...
In the light of thousands of infections and deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a world
One example is that of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her bus seat on a segregated bus. This wasn’t an act that was aiming to change the world — it was simply Rosa Parks making a small gesture that she believed the segregated buses were unethical and...
The stay-at-home restrictions to control the spread of COVID-19 led to unparalleled sudden change in daily life, but it is unclear how they affected urban crime globally. We collected data on daily counts of crime in 27 cities across 23 countries in the
However, a majority of respondents did not feel well-informed about air quality problems in their country, and only around one third of respondents had heard of the European air quality standards. Even with this lack of information, respondents were more likely to think that air quality has ...