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I thought that she died a few years ago. I'm really bad with that sort of thing.
I really admire her for what she did. She wasn't afraid to stand up for what she believed in and so many people benefited from her actions. Rosa Parks is indeed an American Hero. R.I.P.
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Rest well Rosa Parks, an inspiration and a true hero.
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TwoAlarmFire wrote:
I really admire her for what she did. She wasn't afraid to stand up for what she believed in and so many people benefited from her actions. Rosa Parks is indeed an American Hero. R.I.P.
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Hinny wrote:
I know only a little bit about her. Outside of sitting in the front of a bus, what else did she do?
That action kickstarted the Montgomery Bus Boycott and that truly kickstarted the Civil Rights Movement in the US.
Wikipedia wrote:
In the early 1950s, Parks became active in the American Civil Rights Movement and worked as a secretary for the Montgomery, Alabama branch of the NAACP. Just six months before her arrest, she had attended the Highlander Folk School, an education center for workers' rights and racial equality.
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Parks refused to obey a public bus driver's orders to move to the back of the bus to make extra seats for whites. Rosa was tired of being treated as a second-class citizen and held her ground. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for disorderly conduct as well as for violating a local ordinance.
The very next night, 50 leaders of the African American community, headed by relatively unknown minister Martin Luther King, Jr. gathered to discuss the proper actions to be taken after Mrs. Parks' arrest. What ensued next was the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The entire black community boycotted public buses for 381 days. Dozens of public buses stood idle for months until the law legalizing segregation in public buses was lifted. This event helped spark many other protests against segregation. Through her role in initiating this boycott, Rosa Parks helped make other Americans aware of the civil rights struggle.
In 1956 Parks's case ultimately resulted in United States Supreme Court's ruling that segregated bus service was unconstitutional.
Afterwards, Parks became an icon of the civil rights movement. She moved to Detroit in the early 1960s and served on the staff of U. S. Representative John Conyers (D-Michigan) from 1965 until 1988.
The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development was co-founded in February 1987 by Mrs. Rosa Parks and Ms. Elaine Eason Steele in honor of Rosa's husband Raymond Parks.
She continued to reside in Detroit until her death on October 24, 2005.
"I was arrested on December 1st, 1955 for refusing to stand up on the order of the bus driver, after the white seats had been occupied in the front. And of course, I was not in the front of the bus as many people have written and spoken that I was -- that I got on the bus and took the front seat, but I did not. I took a seat that was just back of where the white people were sitting, in fact, the last seat. A man was next to the window, and I took an aisle seat and there were two women across. We went on undisturbed until about the second or third stop when some white people boarded the bus and left one man standing. And when the driver noticed him standing, he told us to stand up and let him have those seats. He referred to them as front seats. And when the other three people -- after some hesitancy -- stood up, he wanted to know if I was going to stand up, and I was not. And he told me he would have me arrested. And I told him he may do that. And of course, he did.
He didn't move the bus any further than where we were, and went out of the bus. Other people got off -- didn't any white people get off -- but several of the black people got off.
Two policemen came on the bus and one asked me if the driver had told me to stand and I said yes. And he wanted to know why I didn't stand, and I told him I didn't think I should have to stand up. And then I asked him, why did they push us around? And he said, and I quote him, "I don't know, but the law is the law and you are under arrest." And with that, I got off the bus, under arrest. "
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Legend.
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I vote we get rid of Columbus Day (Christopher Columbus was a piece of shit) and replace it with Rosa Parks Day. She was a true American hero.
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broken_iris wrote:
Pledge My Grievance wrote:
I vote we get rid of Columbus Day (Christopher Columbus was a piece of shit) and replace it with Rosa Parks Day. She was a true American hero.
No. Next?
Hmmm... let's see. Clueless sailor who wiped out an entire race of people in the islands he conquered vs. Woman standing up for not only what she believed in, but what was right.
Real hard decision that is.
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If Soundgarden is perfectly fine with playing together with Tad Doyle on vocals, why the fuck is he wasting his life promoting the single worst album of all time? Holy shit, he has to be the stupidest motherfucker on earth.
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