62 Years ago.....Rosa Parks arrested

[jillian]

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.

How sad that the erstwhile president and his band of white supremacists are trying to return us to that place

 

[rightwinger]

More than 100 years of democrat party abuse and racism in the state of Alabama. From the 1870's to the 1980's every Alabama governor was a democrat.

What happened in the 1980s?
Republicans in the South have always followed the same policies

 

[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.

How sad that the erstwhile president and his band of white supremacists are trying to return us to that place

Only with Muslims

 

[Moonglow]

Rosa Parks is one of my many inspirations for fighting against legalized abortion.

Rosa's parents were going to have an abortion?

 

[rightwinger]

The boycott brought the bus company to its knees, as did lunch counter demonstrations and other boycotts

If the boycott brought the bus company to its knees, why the need, or praise, of someone breaking the law? Maybe libtards are lawless for its own sake.

Civil Rights laws restricted Government and public businesses from engaging in discrimination.

Most businesses serve the public, but they're private. And, I see you still want to force private businesses to facilitate pedophilia, or faggotry, and such, in the name of non-discrimination. Under what theory should someone lose his First Amendment rights the moment he sells something?

Because unjust laws need to be broken to have standing in court

In this case, through peaceful protest

 

[jillian]

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.

How sad that the erstwhile president and his band of white supremacists are trying to return us to that place

Only with Muslims

I don't think so.

 

[hjmick]

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

And in October of '55 there was Mary Louise Smith...

The funny thing is, for all of the attention Rosa Parks gets for her act of bravery, in the end it was another woman who was chosen to be the lead plaintiff. Parks, it was decided, might be too controversial a plaintiff because of her work as a NAACP officer and organizer and her husband's involvement in work funded by the Communist Party.

Browder vs. Gayle. Aurelia Browder was the lead plaintiff, but the filing also included Claudette Colvin, Mary Louise Smith, and Susan McDonald. Very courageous women. Parks' name never appeared anywhere but in the arrest records and the news (and no, that does not make what she did any less courageous).

Just goes to show you, it's kind of funny how history gets written...