Rosa Parks, born on the 4th of February in 1913, was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. U.S. Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".
Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white person.
According to historian Dr. Casey Nichols, following this arrest, Parks immediately contacted local NAACP president E.D. Nixon and informed him of her arrest. Within hours, the Women’s Political Council (WPC), formed in 1946 to address the grievances of black bus patrons in Montgomery, sprang into action, printing flyers, phoning potential supporters, and organizing carpools.
The boycott succeeded in 1957 after the Supreme Court declared bus segregation unconstitutional. Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement, and she became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.
After the boycott's conclusion, Parks moved to Detroit, Michigan and began working as an assistant to Detroit Congressman John Conyers. She has received numerous honors, including over 40 honorary degrees, the Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, and two NAACP image awards. In 2002, Parks produced a biographical film titled “The Rosa Parks Story.”
"The only tired I was was tired of giving in."
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I forgot to mention, I’m also mentioning one of their friends (the one I call their platonic boyfriend as a joke, who’s been their on and off “roommate” for 7 years) as a kind of response to their freaking out over me saying I was jealous of him (which wasn’t meant sincerely); they thought, for some fucking reason, that I thought they were dating. I said I was “jealous” of him because he lives next door to them (in a tent next to their bus, though he might still be in an apartment), and they’ve known eachother for 7 years, and they see movies together or have dinner or go to Lowe’s every day, and they fucking talk about them all the time. Literally he’s their platonic boyfriend lol. I don’t have any ill feelings towards him but sometimes it feels like, God damnit, if I had a time machine I’d go back to the time and place they met and just casually shove him outta the way, y’know? (Not really.)
Like for real, here’s my dream person, and here’s someone who has my dream relationship with my dream person (I don’t want to date them, really). And I just showed up too late. Almost makes me want to Joker laugh.
why not?