kentuck
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Sun Oct-30-05 01:53 PM
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The Greatness of Rosa Parks... |
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Rosa Parks will lie in state at the nation's Capitol today and tomorrow. If anyone ever deserved the honor, it is she. She was a saint with heart and courage.
In the mid 1950's, she worked as a seamstress at a department store in Alabama. Hard work, standing on her feet all day long. After a hard days work, she went to catch her bus for home. She found a seat on the bus and sat down. Almost immediately, she was requested to get up and move and give the seat to a white person.
Rosa went to another seat farther back in the bus. Once again, this kind woman was asked to get up and give her seat to a white person. She moved farther toward the back of the bus.
Then, a third time, the driver of the bus asked her to move to the back of the bus. She refused. She was arrested and fined $10 with a $4 court cost that is still on the record in Alabama even to this day.
Rosa did not ask for a lawyer. She asked for her minister. That is the day that Martin Luther King came to visit her. That was the birth of the civil rights movement. We should all remember Rosa Parks on this day.
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Sun Oct-30-05 02:13 PM
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1. I admired her all my life |
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the word hero is bandied around so easily but Rosa Parks, bar none, really was a true hero - a real American treasure.
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Sun Oct-30-05 02:14 PM
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2. After she was arrested that day.... |
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She could no longer get a job. That is why she moved to Detroit.
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Skittles
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Sun Oct-30-05 02:17 PM
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3. time for me a read more about her |
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kentuck, may I ask, for someone to lie in honor of the rotunda, shouldn't the flags have been ordered lowered?
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kentuck
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Sun Oct-30-05 02:26 PM
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4. I don't know if that is only reserved for heads of state ? |
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But that would be in order for Rosa, I think. As best as I recollect, her arrest was real close to the murder of Emmett Till, the teenager who was murdered in that same timeframe just before Rosa's arrest.
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Sun Oct-30-05 02:42 PM
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5. I have read about Emmett Till |
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lot of heroes in his family too
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Sun Oct-30-05 02:47 PM
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6. A city planner, two policeman, a VP, & unknown soldiers have been honored |
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