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NotesINTRODUCTION: THE NORTH AND SOUTH OFTEMPERAMENT1. Montgomery, Alabama. December 1,1955: For an excellent biography <strong>of</strong> RosaParks, see Douglas Br<strong>in</strong>kley, Rosa Parks: ALife (New York: Pengu<strong>in</strong>, 2000). Most <strong>of</strong>the material <strong>in</strong> <strong>Quiet</strong> about Parks is drawnfrom this work.A note about Parks: Some have questionedthe s<strong>in</strong>gularity <strong>of</strong> her actions, po<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>gout that she’d had plenty <strong>of</strong> civil rightstra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g before board<strong>in</strong>g that bus. Whilethis is true, there’s no evidence, accord<strong>in</strong>gto Br<strong>in</strong>kley, that Parks acted <strong>in</strong> a premeditatedmanner that even<strong>in</strong>g, or even as anactivist; she was simply be<strong>in</strong>g herself. Moreimportant for <strong>Quiet</strong>’s purposes, her

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