"Rosa Parks sparked a movement 70 years ago today by refusing to surrender her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white passenger. She was arrested. The Montgomery bus boycott lasted over a year and ended when a U.S. Supreme Court very different from ours ruled segregation on public buses unconstitutional.
"Parks said of her role, 'People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.'
"But it took courage. The year-long boycott shows that such courage is contagious. Oppressors fear it..." -- Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo, on the courage of civil rights hero / pioneer Rosa Parks. A biography of Ms. Parks is here. We need her courage today and going forward if we're ever to restore decency, honor, freedom, and justice in our country.
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