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quietly. “Get <strong>of</strong>f my bus,” Blakesputtered <strong>in</strong> response.Parks <strong>com</strong>plied, but not before deliberatelydropp<strong>in</strong>g her purse on her wayout and sitt<strong>in</strong>g on a “white” seat as shepicked it up. “Intuitively, she had engaged<strong>in</strong> an act <strong>of</strong> passive resistance, aprecept named by Leo Tolstoy and embracedby Mahatma Gandhi,” writes thehistorian Douglas Br<strong>in</strong>kley <strong>in</strong> a wonderfulbiography <strong>of</strong> Parks. It was morethan a decade before K<strong>in</strong>g popularizedthe idea <strong>of</strong> nonviolence and long beforeParks’s own tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> civil disobedience,but, Br<strong>in</strong>kley writes, “such pr<strong>in</strong>cipleswere a perfect match for her ownpersonality.”Parks was so disgusted by Blake thatshe refused to ride his bus for the nexttwelve years. On the day she f<strong>in</strong>allydid, the day that turned her <strong>in</strong>to the“Mother <strong>of</strong> the Civil Rights Movement,”181/929

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