Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Eyes on the prize part 2

Forty years ago on December 1, 1995, a young woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. Rosa Parks was tired from a long day's work and was tired of the treatment she and her other African Americans were exposed to everyday. She was surely not craven that day if she were any other day. She was too fed up with the situation to be dispassionate about it. Rosa was a quiet, soft-spoken and diplomatic person. You can see from her pictures that she wasn't far off from how she presented herself. Parks had courage that day to go to jail for what she believed in. She wasn't trying to abscond but simply make her voice heard. In doing this she was able to fawn the people back then and the people that came after. This led up to the Montgomery's bus boycott and the supreme court's ruling in November 1956 that segregation on transportation was unconstitutional.

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