She had just spent her entire day working in a department store tailoring and pressing clothes for white people and now she was being told that she had no rights. “Look, woman, I told you I wanted the seat. Are you going to stand up?” Blake said. Finally, Rosa Parks spoke. “No,” she said. “If you don’t stand up, I’m going to have you arrested,” Blake warned her. She told him to go right ahead, but she was not going to move. Blake got off the bus and went to phone the police, thereby involuntarily entering the nation’s history books; his was the most ordinary example of a Southern white man
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