Monday, February 4, 2013

Rosa Parks - 100 Today

On this what would have been her 100th birthday let's revisit Rosa Parks. Most of what we think we know about Rosa Parks may well be wrong.

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)




Rosa Parks booked.
Rosa Parks receives an award from Bill Clinton.
Barak Obama sitting on the bus.
Parks was arrested sitting in the same row Obama is in,
but on the opposite side.
Parks on a Montgomery bus on December 21, 1956,
the day Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated.
Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a UPI reporter covering the event.

Happy Birthday Rosa Parks

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