Here is the latest from The Year Was, which is that thing I do every week. We are up to episode 145. This time we examine the year 1887 as A Study in Scarlet is believed to be published, and 1955 as Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat.

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Theme music by The Tim Kreitz Band

https://www.youtube.com/c/TimKreitzAdventures/

https://www.reverbnation.com/timkreitz

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iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-year-was/id1458174084 

Podbean: https://theyearwas.podbean.com/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qdd00m2NWvrViVIfAh6kA

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWavt8mqXHsC_uRNpU3lQ

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Sources:

https://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/12/the-real-first-publication-date-of.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeton's_Christmas_Annual

https://todayinhistory.org/12/01/rosa-parks-is-arrested/

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/rosa-parks

https://www.rosaparks.org/biography/

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/rosa-parks

https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/rosa-parks-in-her-own-words/about-this-exhibition/the-bus-boycott/rosa-parks-arrested/

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks

https://www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/2014/12/the-arrest-of-rosa-parks.html

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Photo: 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Rosaparks.jpg