#rosa parks
Women History Month
We all know Republicans would have plenty of choice words for a minority social activist partaking in civil disobedience today. But, hey, maybe they let her slide because Rosa Parks is at least partly responsible for the America without racism we enjoy today!
Racism is over, everyone! And to celebrate, the Republican party will continue to to try and pass voter ID laws and keep black people from voting. Yay!
No Meekness Here: Meet Rosa Parks, ‘Lifelong Freedom Fighter’
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/29/457627426/understanding-rosa-parks-as-a-life-long-freedom-fighter
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Rosa Parks proved that sitting down can be a stand-up statement. While history may depict her famous refusal to get up from her bus seat as a spontaneous protest, this incredible woman had activist credentials that stretched well beyond. But, it was her famous 1955 act of civil disobedience that became a watershed event in civil rights activism and forever changed America for the better. It is for this uncompromising spirit in the face of repression that Rosa Parks takes her rightful seat in the Push Girl Hall of Fame.
Tell your friend she’s got a little Rosa Parks in her. Reblog now to give her a little push.
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Remembering and honoring #RosaParks on her 109th birthday.
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.”
Rosa Parks with Steven Spielberg at film premiere of his film ‘Amistad’, 4/12/1997.
Black History Month
DECEMBER 1 - ROSA PARKS
Today marks the 60th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Though she was not the first to resist bus segregation - preceded by Irene Morgan,Claudette Colvin and several others - Parks undeniably served as an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement.
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired,” she wrote in her 1992 autobiography. “But that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
Parks’ many recognitions include the NAACP’s 1979 Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol’s National Statuary Hall. Upon her death in 2005, she became the first woman to lie in honor at the Capitol Rotunda.
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Happy Birthday to Rosa Parks, born 106 years ago today, on February 4, 1913.
Sometimes all it takes is one person or a few people saying, “We’re not going” to light the spark of a movement or a revolution, writes @CatoInstitute EVP David Boaz.
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Happy Belated Birthday to Civil Rights pioneer, Rosa Parks! Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Her actions were a major catalyst in the Civil Rights movement. Learn more.
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Sweatpants & History | Rosa Parks and Her Lifetime of Activism
Today, on what would have been her 104th birthday, Rosa Parks’ contribution to the Civil Rights Movement is honored—in two states: California and Missouri (Ohio and Oregon observe Rosa Parks Day on December 1, the anniversary of her arrest). Only four out of fifty states have proclaimed a day to honor the woman often dubbed “the first lady of civil rights.” Aside from being a missed opportunity…
Rosa Parks és a math rock eszmélésem
Engedjék meg, hogy aztakurva. Imádok új dolgokat felfedezni és a pénteki Pale Honey / Rosa Parks / The Best Bad Trip hármas koncertre készülgetésem közepette sikerült is: math rock!
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Favorite actresses: Angela Bassett
“ You can’t be in this industry if you’re afraid of a little rejection. You have to study your craft. Actresses make it look easy because that’s the way it should look—effortless. When a great actor does their job they’re leaving a piece of their soul in the room. It takes a little out of you, but that’s okay. Life will take a little out of you, love will take a little out of you. We’re talking about demonstrating the best and worst of the human experience. ”
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“Do people think that bus just kept making regularly-scheduled stops when Rosa Parks took a stand? It was not just an act of defiance by a single person–it was a protest planned by activists, premeditated, illegal and purposely disruptive.”
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Happy Birthday Rosa Parks!
She would’ve been 107 today!
February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005
facts:
1. Parks wasn’t the first
Fifteen-year-old civil rights activist Claudette Colvin came before Parks in making news for being dragged off a bus and jailed for not giving up her seat. But she became pregnant soon after her arrest and civil rights leaders opted against using her as the case to spark a movement. That’s where Rosa Parks came in.
2. She was an activist
Parks was a seamstress by trade, but was deeply active in the NAACP, working to improve civil rights in her community. Her Dec. 1 action of refusing to give her seat in the black section of the bus to a white man was calculated, but not planned for that time. “I got on the bus to go home,” Parks has said.
3. Parks knew the bus driver
The driver was James Blake, who had a reputation for treating black passengers without dignity. More than a decade earlier, Blake stopped Parks from entering the front of the bus, telling her to use the back entrance, then sped away before she got on.
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Rosa Parks would have turned 107 today. Here are 5 facts you should know about her.
So, correct me if I’m wrong. But.
As many other people I, too, learned in school about Amazing Rosa Parks, the hero who protested racial segregation by not standing for a white person. But.
But.
What I didn’t learn in school and actually learned a lot later was about the brave Teenager Claudette Colvin.
This is her. On March 2, 1955 at age 15 she did the exact same thing Rosa Parks would do about nine months later. But.
But.
The whole thing was kept secret because she was said to be pregnant from a married man which made her “a bad role model”. As far as I know that wasn’t even true.
I’m not saying what Rosa Parks did was any less dangerous or worth praise. Rosa Parks was a brave woman who fought for her beliefs.
But so was this teenage girl and I do think she deserves to be known and praised as well.
