{"id":167,"date":"2015-12-01T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/12\/01\/a-rebel-worth-remembering\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:28:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:28:18","slug":"a-rebel-worth-remembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/12\/01\/a-rebel-worth-remembering\/","title":{"rendered":"A rebel worth remembering!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background: white;color: #333333;font-size: 13pt;line-height: 107%\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Sixty years ago today, December 1, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus.&nbsp; While perhaps best known for her action that day which sparked a yearlong boycott of buses by blacks in Montgomery, Rosa Parks was a lifelong activist in the civil rights movement where she addressed issues of segregation and economic and racial inequality.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background: white;color: #333333;font-size: 13pt;line-height: 107%\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"background: white;color: #333333;font-size: 13pt;line-height: 107%\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Read more about this amazing woman in Langsdale Library\u2019s copy of the definitive political biography <i><a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/oclc\/793578858\" target=\"_blank\">The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks<\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty years ago today, December 1, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus.&nbsp; While perhaps best known for her action that day which sparked a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/12\/01\/a-rebel-worth-remembering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  A rebel worth remembering!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}