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Rosa Parks, 1 Dec 1955 US Bus Boycott

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Elizabethofseasons

Elizabethofseasons Report 1 Dec 2009 22:58

Gentle nudge please

Thank you
xx

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond

Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond Report 1 Dec 2009 04:04

Thanks for that Elizabeth, I had read this before but you have reminded me to put up a thread about Small Island, a drama which starts at the weekend I think.

I read the book not so long ago and it was really good and thought provoking so will be interesting to see it on tv.

Lizx

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 1 Dec 2009 00:48

A great lady indeed, Elizabeith.
She showed how the smallest of actions can have the greatest effect!

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Elizabethofseasons

Elizabethofseasons Report 1 Dec 2009 00:39

Dear All

Hello

On December 1, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her bus seat to make room for a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

As a result, she was arrested and so began the US Bus Boycotts. Mrs Parks became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement . She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including boycott leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mrs Parks later said:

“ People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

She wrote her autobiography, My Story. Mrs Rosa Parks passed away in October 2005. A very great lady. xx

Very sincere wishes
xx