56 years ago today, Rosa Parks got on the bus to go home, but was too tired to go to the back of the bus where blacks in the 50’s were supposed to sit.
From Wikipedia:
On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake‘s order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Parks’ action was not the first of its kind to impact the civil rights issue. Others had taken similar steps, including Lizzie Jennings in 1854, Homer Plessy in 1892, Irene Morgan in 1946, Sarah Louise Keys in 1955, and Claudette Colvin on the same bus system nine months before Parks, but Parks’ civil disobedience had the effect of sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
I can’t imagine having to give my seat up to someone else because they are “superior” to me based on race. Thank you, Rosa Parks for having the guts (or just being too tired to move to the back) to take a stand when others would not.
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