Rosa Parks dead at 92

[Natoma]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9809237/

Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92.

Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, said Karen Morgan, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich.


Mrs. Parks was 42 when she committed an act of defiance in 1955 that was to change the course of American history and earn her the title “mother of the civil rights movement.â€￾


At that time, Jim Crow laws in place since the post-Civil War Reconstruction required separation of the races in buses, restaurants and public accommodations throughout the South, while legally sanctioned racial discrimination kept blacks out of many jobs and neighborhoods in the North.


The Montgomery, Ala., seamstress, an active member of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was riding on a city bus Dec. 1, 1955, when a white man demanded her seat.


Mrs. Parks refused, despite rules requiring black Americans to yield their seats to whites. Two black Montgomery women had been arrested earlier that year on the same charge, but Mrs. Parks was jailed. She also was fined $14.


Speaking in 1992, she said history too often maintains “that my feet were hurting and I didn’t know why I refused to stand up when they told me. But the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passenger. We had endured that kind of treatment for too long.â€￾

You did a great service in your life Rosa. Rest in peace. You've earned it.

 

[gkar1]

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You did a great service in your life Rosa. Rest in peace. You've earned it.

Rest in peace.

 

[John Reynolds]

Rest in peace, brave soul.

 

[London Geezer]

Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes

Yeah right...

/waits for conspiracy theories.

 

[digitalwanderer]

One of them heroes that not enough people think of, she'll be missed.

 

[Geo]

Chris Rock or someone did a wonderful little piece on her where he said something like "The woman wasn't a revolutionary, she was just tired and wanted to sit down!". Those are my kind of revolutionaries --the ones that just say "what a bunch of bullsh*t; I'm just not going to play that anymore" without shooting off any fireworks, or worse, guns.

 

[Kanyamagufa]

Thank you Ms. Parks, and may you rest in peace. You will never be forgotten.

 

[nelg]

Chris Rock or someone did a wonderful little piece on her where he said something like "The woman wasn't a revolutionary, she was just tired and wanted to sit down!". Those are my kind of revolutionaries --the ones that just say "what a bunch of bullsh*t; I'm just not going to play that anymore" without shooting off any fireworks, or worse, guns.

I remember him saying that and while said in jest there is a lot of truth to that. Someone who is put in an absurd situation, without a prior agenda, and makes a stand is the best kind of revolutionary. There is an undeniable honesty in their position which makes that which they oppose seem absurd.

 

[Black Dragon37]

Can we please have a moment of silence...

 

[deathstar121]

Yeah right...

/waits for conspiracy theories.

Couldn't you just say Rest in peace sheesh.

Rest in peace rosa parks.

 

[RussSchultz]

I hear there was trouble at the funeral.









She didn't want to ride in the back of the hearse.

/me going to hell