62 Years ago.....Rosa Parks arrested

[rightwinger]

Quite a woman

62 years ago today Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. 5 facts about her

She was an activist. Parks was a seamstress by trade, but was deeply active in the NAACP and Montgomery Improvement Association, working to improve civil rights in her community. Her Dec. 1 action of refusing to give her seat in the black section of the bus to a white man was calculated, but not planned for that time. "I got on it to go home," Parks has said.

Parks knew the bus driver. The driver was James Blake, who had a reputation for treating black passengers without dignity. More than a decade earlier, Blake stopped Parks from entering the front of the bus, telling her to use the back entrance, then sped away before she got on.

Parks' arrest was supposed to spark a one-day boycott. Activist E.D. Nixon, who was president of Montgomery's NAACP chapter, led the effort to turn Parks' arrest into a one-day boycott. It was such a success that it transformed into a broader boycott until buses were desegregated, or black people were treated better.

It lasted more than a year — and helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement. After Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., made a speech at Holt Street Baptist Church asking people to join in the fight against segregation, nearly 20,000 passengers boycotted Montgomery’s buses regularly for the 381 days it lasted, and by the end of the boycott — after some bus lines shut down routes to black neighborhoods because they could no longer sustain the costs — more than 40,000 regular riders of the buses were no longer on them.

 

[JoeMoma]

Quite a woman

62 years ago today Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. 5 facts about her

She was an activist. Parks was a seamstress by trade, but was deeply active in the NAACP and Montgomery Improvement Association, working to improve civil rights in her community. Her Dec. 1 action of refusing to give her seat in the black section of the bus to a white man was calculated, but not planned for that time. "I got on it to go home," Parks has said.

Parks knew the bus driver. The driver was James Blake, who had a reputation for treating black passengers without dignity. More than a decade earlier, Blake stopped Parks from entering the front of the bus, telling her to use the back entrance, then sped away before she got on.

Parks' arrest was supposed to spark a one-day boycott. Activist E.D. Nixon, who was president of Montgomery's NAACP chapter, led the effort to turn Parks' arrest into a one-day boycott. It was such a success that it transformed into a broader boycott until buses were desegregated, or black people were treated better.

It lasted more than a year — and helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement. After Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., made a speech at Holt Street Baptist Church asking people to join in the fight against segregation, nearly 20,000 passengers boycotted Montgomery’s buses regularly for the 381 days it lasted, and by the end of the boycott — after some bus lines shut down routes to black neighborhoods because they could no longer sustain the costs — more than 40,000 regular riders of the buses were no longer on them.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Quite a woman

62 years ago today Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. 5 facts about her

She was an activist. Parks was a seamstress by trade, but was deeply active in the NAACP and Montgomery Improvement Association, working to improve civil rights in her community. Her Dec. 1 action of refusing to give her seat in the black section of the bus to a white man was calculated, but not planned for that time. "I got on it to go home," Parks has said.

Parks knew the bus driver. The driver was James Blake, who had a reputation for treating black passengers without dignity. More than a decade earlier, Blake stopped Parks from entering the front of the bus, telling her to use the back entrance, then sped away before she got on.

Parks' arrest was supposed to spark a one-day boycott. Activist E.D. Nixon, who was president of Montgomery's NAACP chapter, led the effort to turn Parks' arrest into a one-day boycott. It was such a success that it transformed into a broader boycott until buses were desegregated, or black people were treated better.

It lasted more than a year — and helped galvanize the Civil Rights Movement. After Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., made a speech at Holt Street Baptist Church asking people to join in the fight against segregation, nearly 20,000 passengers boycotted Montgomery’s buses regularly for the 381 days it lasted, and by the end of the boycott — after some bus lines shut down routes to black neighborhoods because they could no longer sustain the costs — more than 40,000 regular riders of the buses were no longer on them.

These new Social Justice Warriors should learn about when such activities make sense and not when they are only politically driven and/or micro aggression.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Protests then and now.

 

[Peach]

I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.

• Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," Time(1999-06-14)by kurtis

And she foresaw history.

 

[Asclepias]

Before Rosa refused to move, Claudette Colvin did it first.

 

[Pogo]

Before Rosa refused to move, Claudette Colvin did it first.

Thanks for this. Unsung hero. Looking it up this would be March 2, 1955.

To paraphrase an infamous phrase, "I like heroes who didn't give up their seat, OK?"

 

[Peach]

Thanks for her story also.

 

[BulletProof]

Do blacks have any black heroes who aren't criminals?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Do blacks have any black heroes who aren't criminals?

^ Everyone knew something like that was coming.

The civil rights movement was a yuuuuuge loss for the social conservative movement. The worst since women’s suffrage and the Confederacy getting crushed.

 

[Peach]

Do blacks have any black heroes who aren't criminals?

Who will ready you the list?

 

[Asclepias]

Do blacks have any black heroes who aren't criminals?

Since most Black heroes have broken white boy laws and caused social change, I would say very few.

 

[BulletProof]

The civil rights movement was a yuuuuuge loss for the social conservative movement. The worst since women’s suffrage and the Confederacy getting crushed.

Aw, the sweet fruits of victory, like many blacks being shot or locked up every day. Or, the majority of blacks being dependent on government checks. And, no amount is civil oppression of whites makes them any less ugly.

 

[rightwinger]

Do blacks have any black heroes who aren't criminals?

Everyone in the Civil Rights movement was an American Patriot
As much as those in the American Revolution

 

[rightwinger]

Rosa Parks risked her life by refusing to give up her seat

Considering what happened to other Civil Rghts icons like Medgar Evers, Goodman, Cheney, Scwermer and MLK, she very easily could have disappeared in the middle of the night and never been seen again

 

[BulletProof]

Do blacks have any black heroes who aren't criminals?

Everyone in the Civil Rights movement was an American Patriot
As much as those in the American Revolution

There's the reason of one's whose head is full of shit. What crimes did Benjamin Franklin engage in? Even if so, great Americans aren't heroes for their defiance of the law. No one says, "Paul Revere is my hero, he broke the law..." In any case, there's a world of difference between fighting for freedom vs. "civil rights" leaders, tyrants who fight to take away the freedoms of their neighbors.

 

[rightwinger]

Do blacks have any black heroes who aren't criminals?

Everyone in the Civil Rights movement was an American Patriot
As much as those in the American Revolution

There's the reason of one's whose head is full of shit. What crimes did Benjamin Franklin engage in? Even if so, great Americans aren't heroes for their defiance of the law. No one says, "Paul Revere is my hero, he broke the law..." In any case, there's a world of difference between fighting for freedom vs. "civil rights" leaders, tyrants who fight to take away the freedoms of their neighbors.

Our founding fathers broke many laws and engaged in violent revolt
Freedom of your neighbors to discriminate against you?

 

[rightwinger]

Rosa Parks was a symbol of......We have had enough!

 

[BulletProof]

Our founding fathers broke many laws and engaged in violent revolt
Freedom of your neighbors to discriminate against you?

It's so boring how a total lack of perspective makes libtards say constantly stupid things.

1) If the Revolutionaries broke laws, the broke laws imposed on them by a far off power, not laws imposed by local authority (not counting proxies).
2) No one who admires the Revolutionaries focuses on them breaking laws. But, libtards focus in lawlessness of the people they admire.
3) Freedom is discrimination (I choose...). You libtards have made it your mission to attack freedom.

 

[rightwinger]

Our founding fathers broke many laws and engaged in violent revolt
Freedom of your neighbors to discriminate against you?

It's so boring how a total lack of perspective makes libtards say constantly stupid things.

1) If the Revolutionaries broke laws, the broke laws imposed on them by a far off power, not laws imposed by local authority (not counting proxies).
2) No one who admires the Revolutionaries focuses on them breaking laws. But, libtards focus in lawlessness of the people they admire.
3) Freedom is discrimination (I choose...). You libtards have made it your mission to attack freedom.

Let's see

Civil Rights activists broke assembly and segregation laws imposed by those who restricted their right to vote

Blacks in Jim Crow United States faced restrictions on freedom far worse than our founding fathers faced