Rosa Parks Dies.

Caught the crosstown local to the sweet hereafter. Sat right up front. Rest in peace.
 
She was even known over on this side of Atlantic, certainly was a beacon. Did she go on to play any further role in the civil rights movement?
 
Darat said:
She was even known over on this side of Atlantic, certainly was a beacon. Did she go on to play any further role in the civil rights movement?
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As for work, according to the CNN story:

Facing regular threats and having lost her department store job because of her activism, Parks moved from Alabama to Detroit in 1957. She later joined the staff of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat.
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Where she worked until the 1980's, if I heard NPR right.

Not that she stopped here work..

Parks co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development to help young people pursue educational opportunities, get them registered to vote and work toward racial peace.
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Even into her 80s, she was active on the lecture circuit, speaking at civil rights groups and accepting awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999.
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Under every major revolution is the one person--or persons--that finally say "no". They might not be the most famous, or the most articulate, but a simple act of saying 'no' they bring about mighty changes.

Rosa Parks said no. Brave woman. John Donne is right this time; we are all a bit diminished.
 
Based on what you just posted, Hutch, looks to me like that was a grand adventure of a life, especially for such a humble woman.
 
Sad to hear it. She came to FSU to give a speech once. Great lady.
 
I wonder what her self-appointed legal guardians, and their lawyers, will do now that they can no longer sue people who mention her name to earn a living?
 
Beerina said:
I wonder what her self-appointed legal guardians, and their lawyers, will do now that they can no longer sue people who mention her name to earn a living?
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Any evidence to support your allegation?

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All: Sorry for the potential derail.

Beerina: In light of Hutch's comment if you wish to respond please do so in a new thread.
 
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I got to shake her hand at an American Library Association convention. The main thing I remember about the experience is her immense dignity.
 
What floors me is all these people of great spiritual and personal strength who fight these great fights, and yet, I've yet to meet so few of them. I think I'd have been a better man for the chance.
 
One woman on her way home from work, tired and her feet hurt. Our world was the richer for her presence and poorer now that she is gone.

At work today someone mentioned that the lady who started it all out lived so many of those who came after.


"Free at last, free at last, Almighty God, Free at last" MLK,Jr.



Boo
 
I saw a poll of profesional historians recently voting on the top twenty most influential figures in the world in the last... hundred years, I think it was. I noticed that not only was Rosa Parks on the list, but also, and this is what caught my attention, she was the only person on the list who was not the leader of some great mass movement or some nation. It's easy to be influential if you happen to be the American President during WWII, or the leader of the Indian National Congress, or the dictator of an authoritarian Russia. Rosa Parks was the only person on the list who had no authority: only courage.

* celebrates, mourns *
 
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