Remembering Rosa Parks
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189880)
Boise, Idaho
October 24, 2018 5:35pm CST
On October, 24,2005 Rosa Parks died at the age of 92 in her Detroit, Michigan apartment. She is the civil rights activist that refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in segregated Montgomery, Alabama. This started a 381 day boycott which helped to launch the end of the segregation of public facilities. She became a nationally recognized symbol of strength and dignity in the struggle for racial freedom.
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@josie_ (10033)
• Philippines
24 Oct 18
Claudette Colvin was the 15 year old teenager who first refused to give up her seat to a white passenger 9 months earlier than Rosa Park's defiance. Colvin at that time was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council. She was the star witness in the Supreme court case that found bus segregation unconstitutional.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
27 Oct 18
Rosa Parks was willing to be arrested to bring attention to the cause of civil rights at a time when doing so was getting people killed. Her act, though well planned and thought out, with the press alerted ahead of time, and the police notified as to what she'd be doing, was still a dangerous undertaking considering how little the authorities in Montgomery cared about national and world opinion in those days.
Most of the world outside Montgomery had never heard of Claudette Colvin in 1955, but 9 months earlier the 15-year-old had similarly refused to give up her seat to a white man and had been dragged bodily from the bus, beaten, and jailed. The Civil Rights Movement ignored her case because she was not considered a good face for the cause, being a troubled teen who was pregnant with the child of the married man she'd been having an affair with.
Knowing how Colvin had been treated, Ms. Parks was still willing to repeat the younger woman's action. That took courage, determination, and a deep belief in the cause.
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@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Oct 18
Both were two very courageous women.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
25 Oct 18
May we never forget people like Rosa Parks who helped win rights for the rest of us! Men and women, all races, have people like her to thank for helping us move forward. But, there is still so much work to do.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
25 Oct 18
I have been to the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery which is located at the very bus stop where it happened.
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