The Passing of an American Martyr
Rosa Parks dies at age 92: FOXNews.com
Parks is best known for her act of defiance against segregation on a bus in Alabama in 1955. She refused to give up her seat to a white person, resulting in her arrest. She was fined $14.
Her act of deiance earned her the nickname "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement". This act resulted in the massive boycott of the bus system organized by the Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr.
Since this event, many others have practiced civil disobidience. And after her passing, many others will follow in her footsteps of civil disobedience.
Godspeed, Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday evening. She was 92.
Parks is best known for her act of defiance against segregation on a bus in Alabama in 1955. She refused to give up her seat to a white person, resulting in her arrest. She was fined $14.
Her act of deiance earned her the nickname "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement". This act resulted in the massive boycott of the bus system organized by the Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr.
Since this event, many others have practiced civil disobidience. And after her passing, many others will follow in her footsteps of civil disobedience.
Godspeed, Rosa Parks.
posted by Kevin Walker at 12:42 PM
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