Thread Rating:
10-25-2005, 06:26 PM
DETROIT â Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday evening. She was 92.
Mrs. Parks died at her home during the evening of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years.
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."
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 blacks 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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173335,00.html
Mrs. Parks died at her home during the evening of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years.
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."
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 blacks 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.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173335,00.html
![[-]](https://bluegrassrivals.com/forum/images/lifestyle/collapse.png)
10-25-2005, 11:59 PM
She was a brave woman who never imagined she'd have the impact on this country that she did.
10-26-2005, 12:21 AM
Havent you people seen BARBERSHOP?
10-26-2005, 12:31 AM
lol
Nice comment about Ms. Parks in Barbershop
and OJ as well
Nice comment about Ms. Parks in Barbershop
and OJ as well
10-29-2005, 01:32 AM
How would you know if you havent even given it a chance
10-29-2005, 02:04 AM
They're both pretty funny if you ask me.
10-29-2005, 12:38 PM
bevinsville_bomber Wrote:They're both pretty funny if you ask me.I agree with you bb.
Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)
