Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. — part 3 of 5









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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks. Photo courtesy of Martin Luther King Resources at Chico High School Library, Chico, Calif.

In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, UNMC Today continues its series of photos and quotations surrounding the civil rights leader. Today’s excerpt is brief, but historic.

“No.”

Rosa Parks

(This may be the most famous “no” in modern American history. By uttering that single syllable when a bus driver demanded that she, a black woman, surrender her seat to a white man, Rosa Parks sparked a 13-month boycott that ended segregation in the Montgomery, Ala., bus system. The protest inspired 42 other local protests against segregation within a year.


2006 Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration


  • Monday, Jan. 16, noon to 1 p.m., Storz Pavilion, lower level of Clarkson Tower
  • Robert Jensen, Ph.D., associate professor, School of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin, on the unseen and unspoken privileges that are accorded simply because one has white skin.
  • Free and open to the public
  • Sponsored by UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center