Take a Seat

One of the icons of the Civil Rights movement, Rosa Parks was born 108 years ago today.

There has been a lot written about Rosa's refusal to give up her seat on that Montgomery bus. She knew the driver (James Blake), someone with whom she had a previous altercation. For twelve years she avoided any bus he was driving. But on December 1, 1955 she failed to notice who was sitting in the driver's seat as she entered. The result? 

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Parks was not the first African-American woman to be arrested for refusing to yield her seat, only the most famous. She followed in the footsteps of four others, hoping we would do the same.... 

“There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took one more step, someone would come along to join me.” – Rosa Parks