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# Women score goal for civil rights
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/18485/
- Published: 2005-06-10T01:06:24.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:33:37.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:15

[www.parastood.com/archives/images/stadium4.jpg](http://www.parastood.com/archives/images/stadium4.jpg?ref=opendemocracy.net)

Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955\. That was the day when an unknown seamstress [Rosa Parks](http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

Since the 1979 revolution, Iranian women have been [banned](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/not%5Fin%5Fwebsite/syndication/monitoring/media%5Freports/2263666.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net) from attending men's sporting events. But yesterday a group of young Iranian women made history; posting photographs ([1](http://nasiriphotos.com/blog/?id=1002701&ref=opendemocracy.net) \+ [2](http://www.parastood.com/archives/002036.php?ref=opendemocracy.net)) and detailed accounts of their entry into the stadium in their blogs.

"We succeeded. I congratulate all of us today who crossed the red line and broke a futile taboo," wrote blogger [Masoumeh Naseri](http://naseria.blogspot.com/2005/06/blog-post%5F09.html?ref=opendemocracy.net).

[Parastou Doukohaki](http://parastood.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net) writes in her blog: "I still can’t believe it! For years I’ve longed to be part of a cool Mexican wave during a national game... Dear Mahbobeh's leg got broken in the struggle with the security forces at the Azadi stadium. But we got in."

By Nasrin Alavi