October 25, 2005
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Remembering Miss Rosa
Almost
fifty years ago in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Lee McCauley Parks refused
to get up and give her seat on a bus to a white man. The bus
driver told her he was going to have her arrested, and she told him to
go right on ahead and do that.A cop who admitted he didn’t know what law made that act illegal,
arrested her. Public outrage over the arrest led to a bus
boycott, and less than a year after Ms. Parks’s arrest, the Supreme
Court declared Montgomery’s segregation laws unconstitutional.
In
the myth that grew up around Rosa Parks, it was often said that she sat
there because her feet hurt. She herself said she was just tired
of the way her people were treated and thought it was time for them to
begin being treated as human beings.Rosa Parks, a lady of great dignity and quiet courage, died last night at the age of 92.
Comments (7)
So I heard on the news … a lot of great people have passed on this year. Truly sad.
ha! nobody remembers the white man. he sucked.
How true notforprophet. I am so happy that we don’t live in that world any longer. I grew up in white bread Washington state. I think perhaps there were 2 black children in the entire school. I remember staring at them because I had never seen a black person. Then we moved to California and that opened up the world to me. I have dated black men, something so unheard of 30-40 years ago. Thank you Rosa Parks, Martin Luther, and Malcom X you changed our world!!
She was an incredibly strong woman.
She was truly a heroine of our time.
May she rest in peace.
Thank you.
Wow
*solemn quiet moment*
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