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e spat upon. <strong>The</strong> time a blackeighteen-year-old delivery boy wasframed for rape and sent to the electricchair. Parks organized NAACP records,kept track <strong>of</strong> membership payments,read to little kids <strong>in</strong> her neighborhood.She was diligent and honorable, but noone thought <strong>of</strong> her as a leader. Parks, itseemed, was more <strong>of</strong> a foot soldier.Not many people know that twelveyears before her showdown with theMontgomery bus driver, she’d had anotherencounter with the same man,possibly on the very same bus. It was aNovember afternoon <strong>in</strong> 1943, and Parkshad entered through the front door <strong>of</strong>the bus because the back was toocrowded. <strong>The</strong> driver, a well-known bigotnamed James Blake, told her to usethe rear and started to push her <strong>of</strong>f thebus. Parks asked him not to touch her.She would leave on her own, she said180/929

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