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Originally Posted by Godless Dave
Parks faced more than a misdemeanor charge. Given the time and place, she faced the danger of physical assault or even murder. It didn't happen to her, but it did happen to other civil rights protesters.
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Nonsense. The murders were of a very few people who were actively and defiantly challenging authority. Parks just went along, got arrested, and paid her fine. And she didn't show up the next day and try the same thing. Soon after, when the Montgomery bus boycott got started, even if she continued active defiance of the authorities, nobody would have bothered her because there was national publicity. Calling her a hero is an insult to thousands of US soldiers who drive out and patrol every day knowing there's a good chance they'll be blown up.