Monday, October 24, 2005

Rosa Parks, 1913-2005

Civil rights icon Rosa Parks has died at age 92. One of several women who refused to give up their seats on Montgomery, Ala., buses, she was arrested and fined $14.

"Are you going to stand up?" the bus driver asked.
"No," Parks answered.
"Well, by God, I'm going to have you arrested," the driver said.
"You may do that," Parks responded.

Her arrest sparked the Montgomery bus boycott and the rise of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

A woman of grace and courage, she will be missed.


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