Giuseppe Girolamo was a musician aboard, lucky enough initially to get into a lifeboat, gracious enough to give up his seat to someone else.
Parks, 87, was thrust into the national spotlight in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Fifty-eight years after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks became the first African-American woman to be honored with a full length statue in National Statuary Hall.
Who inspired the Montgomery bus boycott after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man?
If Gephardt does accept the vice presidential nod, he would be required to give up his House seat to run.
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When John Edwards decided to give up his Senate seat to run for vice president, it set the stage for a hard-fought race between Bowles and Burr.
The event took place five years before Rosa Parks energized the civil rights movement on Dec. 1, 1955, when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala.
What advice would those already in the hot seat give to the newest dean on the block?
On December 1, 1955, our Nation was forever transformed when an African-American seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger.
On 1 December 1955, Mrs Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama to a white man, defying the law.
But no country is likely to give up its right to a seat as the council grows.
California Republican Frank Riggs has told friends and supporters in his home state that he will give up his House seat to run for the Senate.
It has accepted a provisional offer from Suffolk County Council to give it a nine-seat minibus, which could be used to shuttle passengers along the High Street.
Three hundred and eighty-five days after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, the boycott ended.
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As things stand, the existing comprehensive five-yearly global assessments give governments baselines on which to seat their climate policies.
Parliamentary rules mean MPs cannot officially resign and have to accept a crown office to give up their seat.
But six weeks after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, she could never have guessed how big was the wave she had begun.
If they change allegiance or get expelled from that party, they will be obliged to give up their seat in favour of another of the party loyalists.
One hundred years after she was born and 58 years after she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama city bus, Rosa Parks has a permanent place in the halls of Congress.
It used to be in cases of overbookings that airlines usually could find a passenger who would volunteer to give up a seat in exchange for cash, a free ticket or some other compensation with the expectation of catching another flight later that day or the next morning.
The seats in the MK 9, for example, are attached to the center console, to give maximum rear-seat legroom.
When the driver got up from his seat to insist that she give up hers, she would not be pushed.
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When checking in, an airline may give you the opportunity to upgrade your seat by cashing in some of your frequent flier miles.
That's because Klink, a one-time television reporter and four-term congressman, has decided to give up his House seat and make a bid for the Senate.
But Mr Clinton has his fingers in his ears: his administration failed to give the doctor a seat on the presidential advisory commission on Medicare, and generally ignores him.
The last person to be expelled from this house was 55 years ago - in 1954 - and it remains the case that members can be sentenced to prison for up to a year without being required to give up their parliamentary seat.
While 1950s U.S. civil rights protester Rosa Parks made history for her refusal to give up her bus seat, and Burmese democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi famously endured house arrest throughout the 1990s, the name "Emily Davison" has failed to gain such international recognition.
Suddenly all those strangers were beaming at me, and by the time I retook my seat I realized that my sincere attempt to give away my success had just come back to me many times over.
She seems to think that you should still give lobbyists a seat at the table.
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Our correspondent says that if Mr Lieberman is found guilty and sentenced to more than three months in prison, he would be forced to spend seven years out of government and give up his parliamentary seat.
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