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JOURNAL OF MODERN MYTHOLOGY AND POP CULTURE INTRODUCTION PAGE 77
The reinstatement of Myth and Popular Culture as a central focus of modern life takes many forms through the 1950s and 1960s with more than a little help from our friends.
Born on February 4, 1913, Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist and, according to the U. S. Congress, "Mother of the modern day civil rights movement." Parks became prominent in 1955 for refusing to obey an Alabama law requiring her to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. This act of civil disobedience ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott, one of the greatest movements against racial segregation.
Left: Rosa Parks, whom Time magazine named one of the 20 most influential and iconic persons of the twentieth century. Right: The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr., born January 15, 1929, was a minister, one of the leaders of the American Civil Rights movement, and political activist. His famous and influential public oration, the "I Have A Dream" speech, was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. The next year King became the youngest person awarded the Nobel Peace Price for his work promoting nonviolence, and equal treatment for all races. According to a Gallup poll, King is the second most admired person of the twentieth-century, a real person, who, along with Rosa Parks, attained an eminent cultural status in the United States and in worldwide pop culture.
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