![]() ![]() Parks was a fighter, a revolutionary, and a woman who stood up for what was right in a time when to do so was to risk your life. While the picture we sometimes have of Rosa Parks is that of a woman who sort of found herself in the middle of the civil rights movement, there is much more to her than that. ![]() Parks was arrested and charged with violating the segregation law of the Montgomery City code. ![]() When the bus driver, James Blake, threatened to call the police, Parks politely told him, "You may do that." And so he did. She wasn’t just a woman who was exhausted, but a woman who was tired of being treated like a second-class citizen. After being told to get up and give her seat to a white man, Parks decided enough was enough. Parks, an assistant tailor in Montgomery, Alabama, took the 2857 bus on the Cleveland Avenue line home on Dec. 1, 1955, Parks became part of a movement to end the bus segregation of the South known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and secured her place in American history as the mother of the civil rights movement. If she were still alive, Rosa Parks would be 102 years old today. ![]()
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