”The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” -Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005) was an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, whom the United States Congress called “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement.”
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake’s order to give up her seat in the “colored section” to a white passenger, after the whites-only section was filled.
Parks’ act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Parks was the first woman and third non-US government official to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. California and Missouri commemorate Rosa Parks Day on her birthday February 4, while Ohio and Oregon commemorate the occasion on the anniversary of the day she was arrested, December 1.
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Yes, today is the birthday of our beloved predominantly L2 dna Black American, part A2 dna Pawhautton mulatto Mongol, and part R1b tyrensenase(-) U7 & H dna white Irish Sister Rosa Parks.
Like many unsung female Heroes b4 and after her, not by sword and not by might, but by humbly sitting down, Sister Parks stood up 4 the rights of all Black Americans.
And that is why we love her so, and honor her peaceful, nonviolent resistance 2 bigotry and hate.