Via Reuters: Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies
Rosa Parks, the black seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white man sparked a revolution in American race relations, died on Monday. The U.S. civil rights pioneer was 92.
It really is insane to think that there was a time in this country that a person could be arrested for being black, sitting down on a bus, and not being willing to give up said seat to someone else just because that someone else was white.
Thankfully we have moved beyond such nonsense, but it is still a sad scar on American history.
Update: LaShawn Barber comments on Parks and rounds-up Blogospheric reaction here.
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October 25th, 2024 at 9:06 am
Rosa Parks, 1913-2005
Call her “the woman who refused to get up,” but I’m sure Rosa Parks had no idea what her tired feet and frustrating treatment would lead to on December 1, 1955.
What became known as the Civil Rights movement was bound to start soone…
October 25th, 2024 at 1:22 pm
Rosa Parks Dead At 92
Parks, 92, reportedly died around 7 p.m. Monday at St. John Hospital on Detroit’s east side.
Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 landed her in jail and sparked a bus boycott that is conside…
October 25th, 2024 at 1:25 pm
Rosa Parks Dead at 92 What Happened To Her Legacy?
Rosa Parks died today. She was 92. Parks was the civil rights leader who refused to move to the back of the bus and was arrested for disorderly conduct. It set off a firestorm that began the modern civil rights era that would see the end of Jim Crow….
October 25th, 2024 at 8:09 pm
A DECLARATION FOR ROSA PARKS, DEAD AT 92
Whereas, You have inspired the modern civil rights movement by refusing to give your seat to a white man in opposition to the laws of the day in Montgomery, Alabama on December, 1 1955.
Whereas, Your arrest for said act of defiance not only lead t…
October 26th, 2024 at 12:24 am
Rosa Lee Parks, 1931-2005
Rosa Parks, one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement for minorities, who’s famous for her refusal to vacate her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus at the time they were running discriminatory laws against blacks in the southern states, has pas…