Rosa Parks, a true American hero, is dead at 92. See LaShawn Barber for a wrap-up of blog posts.
Abraham Lincoln’s description of Harriet Beecher Stowe as the little lady who started the Civil War is probably apocryphal, but it can be said with some accuracy that Rosa Parks’s courageous refusal to give up her seat on that Montgomery bus sparked the civil rights movement.
It’s not only a good thing that she lived but also that she lived when she did. Had she taken her stand — or rather, kept her seat — in a later era, such as our own, she might well have been known for sitting down for the principle that bus riders should be assigned seats based on their race and ethnicity in order to ensure “diversity.”
