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  • Supreme Court Allows Rosa Parks to Sue Rap Duo

    12/08/2003 10:54:46 AM PST · by NYer · 108 replies · 718+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | December 8, 2003 | James Vicini
    The justices let stand a U.S. appeals court ruling that reinstated Parks' false advertising and publicity claims against OutKast and three Bertelsmann AG (news - web sites) units -- LaFace Records, the record producer, and Arista Records and BMG Entertainment, the distributors. Parks made history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest, which became a defining moment in the civil rights movement, led to a 381-day boycott of the bus system by blacks. It resulted in the end...