~~~~~~~~~~~~~ROSA PARKS 1913-2005~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Posted by kennc at 15:25, 25 Oct 2005http://www.msnbc.com/id/9809237/
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/...
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/index...
http://montgomery.troy.edu/museum/
http://www.rosaparks.org/pages/backgroun...
http://www.cbs.com/specials/rosa_parks/c...
This blog is intended to be an educational tribute to a great person who was a great woman, THE MOTHER OF THE UNITED STATES CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT! Whether you comment or not, please read the links above and the other related links found within the above links. If you comment, please comment respectfully and debate with dignity. ROSA PARKS would do the same!!!
Kennc
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2 March 2005
5 years 18 weeks
I don't have to look into a history book to learn about Rosa Parks and the United States Civil Rights Movement. I lived through it and, in my own very small way, I was part of it. In a real sense, it is still going on. Some people's reputations are made by great movements in history. Other people, through their actions, make great movements and Rosa Parks is one of those people. Through her actions of defiance against unjust laws, Rosa Parks became the Mother of the United States Civil Rights Movement. She stood up for her rights and, in doing so, risked far worse consequences than a jail term!
Kennc
24 June 2004
4 years 35 weeks
Rosa Parks will never be forgotten.How could she.One lone woman to stand up to that appalling racism of the southern states....it takes more guts than I have to do such a thing.
The blacks who lived then in those places showed supreme bravery every day of their lives, just getting on with the process of living.
If I had been there then, and black, I probably would have crawled into a cave to live.Or preferably die.
Another heroine of mine is the mother of Emmet Till, who allowed the body of her beloved murdered child to be viewed by thousands to show what happened in the south when a black boy spoke to a white woman.
I have cried over these people as I have cried over the blacks around the world and the treatment they are handed by the white races.
We white people do not know what it is like to be born black in a white country.
I have always said that to be born white,sound of body and mind,in Australia, makes you luckier than 90% of the rest of the world.
You don't need to have money.You have what counts in this world, a white skin.
Whatever moved Rosa Parks that day to defy the disgusting racist laws of her state we will never know.
But we do know that her action changed things for millions of others.
So why has the pope not made her a saint!
shadows
2 March 2005
5 years 18 weeks
Shadows
There have been many acts of courage in the Civil Rights Movement and there will be many more before it is over!
kennc
22 February 2005
4 years 10 weeks
you have said it all. And kennc....good blog. I heard today on abc that she had passed. At least in passing she has again brought this into the spotlight.
And shadows....I am white but born in a black country........
DISCLAIMER: the opinions and veiws in this post are mine only and are not those of others or of TDG. Any similarities are by chance only.
1 May 2004
42 weeks 3 days
When we see injustise. There is always work to do. Rosa you are forever a star to guide us!
1 March 2005
4 years 8 weeks
I was appauled to note that when i conveyed the news about Rosa Parks death to the jamaicans i live with they responed by saying they didn't know she was still alive.pitty
however here's to the woman that sat down and inspired a race to stand up