Rosa Parks shall not be moved!
We know the story. One December evening, a woman left work and boarded a bus for home. She was tired; her feet ached. But this was Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, and as the bus became crowded, the woman, a black woman, was ordered to give up her seat to a white passenger. When she remained seated, that simple decision eventually led to the disintegration of institutionalized segregation in the South, ushering in a new era of the civil rights movement.
~Time Magazine
I am truly mourning the death of Sister Rosa Parks. She was a black woman who said a silent and distinct NO to the system, and that is a courageous act. I often wondered if she truly knew that her small, yet significant actions would initiate the civil right movement, leading with the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
It's amazing that she lived to be 92 years old and her story is still often told. Yet, so many of us forget how segrated this country was 50 years ago. We come a long way, but we have a long way to go.
Sister Parks proves a single person can make a big difference and one doesn't have to be a person with a big voice to have a big impact.
Sister Rosa Parks, your story will live on!
We know the story. One December evening, a woman left work and boarded a bus for home. She was tired; her feet ached. But this was Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, and as the bus became crowded, the woman, a black woman, was ordered to give up her seat to a white passenger. When she remained seated, that simple decision eventually led to the disintegration of institutionalized segregation in the South, ushering in a new era of the civil rights movement.~Time Magazine
I am truly mourning the death of Sister Rosa Parks. She was a black woman who said a silent and distinct NO to the system, and that is a courageous act. I often wondered if she truly knew that her small, yet significant actions would initiate the civil right movement, leading with the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
It's amazing that she lived to be 92 years old and her story is still often told. Yet, so many of us forget how segrated this country was 50 years ago. We come a long way, but we have a long way to go.
Sister Parks proves a single person can make a big difference and one doesn't have to be a person with a big voice to have a big impact.
Sister Rosa Parks, your story will live on!
Posted by Unconquerable Soul at 11:19 AM::
5 Comments:
Yes, Rosa Parks will be missed. The year (1955) that Mrs. Parks refused to give up her seat was an eventful year. It was only 4 months prior to that when Emmett Till, a 14 year boy from Chicago was murdered in Mississippi. People were fed up including Ms. Rosa Parks. God bless her soul. Great post!
yeah man ... i am there with you.
i am saddened even though i know we all have to go at one time or another.
it just makes you think, ya know?
she has had a long life and meant something to people all over the world and made her mark.
i only hope that i can make a mark a small percentage of what she has done!
Let's remember Rosa Parks for the woman that she was. She was a valiant freedom fighter, who before her organized civil disobedience, spent a lot of her tim working for the NAACP out of Montgomery.
Too often, the media pacified Rosa Parks as a woman who was just too tired to get up, and her actions somehow sparked this whole thing.
Let us remember Rosa Parks for the REAL actions she took. Not a tired, silent woman. But a woman who knew exactly what she was going to do when she got on that bus. With the backing of her friends and colleagues at the NAACP, she took her seat and did not get up, not with a tired hunch on her back, but with a stern middle finger raised at the system.
This woman was the definition of a real activist, who wasn't tired from a long day's work. She was tired of it all.
Rosa Parks knew exactly what would come of her actions. Let's thank her for her forethought.
" a single person can make a big difference and one doesn't have to be a person with a big voice to have a big impact "...
That is so true.
Rosa Parks was the Power of 1 personified! It's time they showed her TV bio-pic again. I wish we could get the message across to a lot of young Black youth that we come from some courageous folks like Rosa Parks! There's nothing minor about us at all!
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