Rosa Parks, R.I.P.
Race and identity politics have deteriorated into little more than buffonery, but it was only a half-century ago that acts of great personal courage and moral conviction were necessary to bring an end to a deeply unjust system of racial discrimination. Read La Shawn Barber’s post on the late Rosa Park, the woman who dared to sit down.
As an aside: Much has been made of the fact that Parks and many, many others in the African-American Civil Rights movement in the 50’s and 60’s were socialists. It should be kept in mind that socialism was the in thing of that era, pretty much the default ideology among educated people, bizarre as it seems now.
October 25th, 2005 at 11:26 am
Rosa Parks, 1913-2005
Call her “the woman who refused to get up,” but I’m sure Rosa Parks had no idea what her tired feet and frustrating treatment would lead to on December 1, 1955.
What became known as the Civil Rights movement was bound to start soone…
October 25th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
Rosa Parks Dead at 92 What Happened To Her Legacy?
Rosa Parks died today. She was 92. Parks was the civil rights leader who refused to move to the back of the bus and was arrested for disorderly conduct. It set off a firestorm that began the modern civil rights era that would see the end of Jim Crow….
October 25th, 2005 at 3:01 pm
It is a good thing that our country did not have laws that required Rosa Parks’ mother to abort her and all the other black babies. That would not have been good. –Bill Bennett
October 25th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
You’re quite a comedian, “Bill Bennett”.
October 26th, 2005 at 1:25 am
Rosa Lee Parks, 1931-2005
Rosa Parks, one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement for minorities, who’s famous for her refusal to vacate her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus at the time they were running discriminatory laws against blacks in the southern states, has pas…