ABC「N」シャワー 051027ローザ・パークスの抵抗 Rosa Parks was one of the most important symbols of the civil rights movement.
Her defiance mobilized Montgomery's black community to boycott the city buses. defiance=公然の抵抗、果敢な抵抗 She was convinced of violating local segregation laws. segregation=人種(性別)的分離(待遇)、人種差別 番組では「人種隔離法」と訳していた。
US Supreme Court struck down the Jim Crow laws that relegated blacks to second class status. relegate =(人を離れた場所に)追いやる、追放する、左遷する Jim Crow laws =《米》黒人差別法