Author: joan reports

It startles me that Alito’s day of nomination and day of confirmation intersect now twice...

Voting machines tested, report is up on CALIF’s Secy of State website      ...

     >>   This is cross-posted at  dailykos

Segregated seating on the buses did not end in Montgomery until 382 days after Rosa Parks had her day in municipal court (she lost her plea).

A federal court order from SCOTUS was delivered to Montgomery 12 months later, December 20, 1956.  On that day, the boycott of Montgomery city buses was cancelled and black and white people could finally sit in the same rows on buses.

The defiance of Rosa Parks and 4 other women set off a yearlong rancorous legal battle that wound up at the US Supreme Court.

At the end of a year of civil disobedience in Montgomery, the Supreme Court struck down the city’s segregated bus law.   The case was Browder v. Gayle, named for plaintiff Aurelia Browder and Montgomery’s mayor WA Gayle.

Here’s something to think about while Bush gets himself ready to nominate a judge “who isn’t an activist” and as Rosa Parks’ body is brought into the US Capitol to lie in state.

Parks was arrested by the city of Montgomery for defying a local ordinance that required her to give up her seat for a white man riding the bus.

On December 5, 1955 (5 days after her arrest), Rosa Parks lost her plea at her day in court.

— Cross-posted also at dailykos —

See the marker for the crime; someone nailed it to a street corner in Austin last year.              

(Click here, for a larger image.)            ‘R. I. P.               Democracy,                 Killed by Tom DeLay on this spot‘        Seen at the Corner of 38th and Ronson in Austin,        winter 2004

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Remember, the ONLY gains in the US House of Reps in 2004 by Republicans were 5 seats in Texas – handed over by DeLay's engineered redistricting. Not a single other House seat across the country.
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         —   cross posted at dailykos   —  ...