Many 'Super Sistahs'...(including: Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Phyllis Wheatley, Betty Shabazz, Mary McCleod Bethune, Coretta Scott-King, Rosa Parks, etc.)... have contributed to the battle for equal rights, participated in protests, and worked for the betterment of the Planet.
ROSA PARKS was a great example of the power of RIGHT
over might and White....
She was the spark that ignited the 'equal rights movement'...
* Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.*
She was arrested for violating 'Jim Crow' laws--not giving up her
seat on a bus to a white man.
In those days (1950's), Black people were legally forced to sit in the back of public buses. When a White man tried to take Rosa's seat, she refused to get up. The White bus driver turned to her and threatened, "If you don't get up...I will have you arrested."
Rosa calmly replied..."You may do that..." And she did not get up. She was promptly arrested and booked.
Mrs. Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a bus prompted a mass black boycott of buses, organised by Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. His protest movement brought about the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which outlawed racial discrimination in the US.
She demonstrated persistence in the face of horrible odds and she sat calmly in the face of threats from uncivilized people. Little did she know that day---her act of defiance--- by sitting down--- would change the USA.
United States Vice President AL GORE presented to ROSA PARKS the Congessional Medal of Honor at a ceremony in Detroit on 28 November 1999.
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