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TIL that in 1943, Rosa Parks boarded a bus being driven by James F. Blake when the latter told Parks to disembark and re-enter from the back. When Parks got off the bus, Blake sped off. 12 years later, Parks would famously defy Blake, thereby prompting the Montgomery bus boycott.

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