Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities.
Early Life and Family
Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Parks’ mother moved the family to Pine Level, Alabama, to live with her parents, Rose and Sylvester Edwards. Both of Parks' grandparents were formerly enslaved people and strong advocates for racial equality
Parks' childhood brought her early experiences with racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. In one experience, Parks' grandfather stood in front of their house with a shotgun while Ku Klux Klan members marched down the street.
Throughout Parks' education, she attended segregated schools. Taught to read by her mother at a young age, Parks attended a segregated, one-room school in Pine Level, Alabama, that often lacked adequate school supplies such as desks.
In 1932, at age 19, Parks met and married Raymond Parks, a barber and an active member of the NAACP.
After graduating high school with Raymond's support, Parks became actively involved in civil rights issues by joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943.
On December 1, 1955, Parks was arrested for refusing a bus driver's instructions to give up her seat to a white passenger. She later recalled that her refusal wasn't because she was physically tired, but that she was tired of giving in.
The Montgomery City Code required that all public transportation be segregated and that bus drivers had the "powers of a police officer of the city while in actual charge of any bus for the purposes of carrying out the provisions" of the code.
This was accomplished with a line roughly in the middle of the bus separating white passengers in the front of the bus and African American passengers in the back. When an African American passenger boarded the bus, they had to get on at the front to pay their fare and then get off and re-board the bus at the back door.
The police arrested Parks at the scene and charged her with violation of Chapter 6, Section 11, of the Montgomery City Code. She was taken to police headquarters, where, later that night, she was released on bail.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Members of the African American community were asked to stay off city buses on Monday, December 5, 1955 — the day of Parks' trial — in protest of her arrest. People were encouraged to stay home from work or school, take a cab or walk to work.
With most of the African American community not riding the bus, organizers believed a longer boycott might be successful. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, as it came to be known, was a huge success, lasting for 381 days and ending with a Supreme Court ruling declaring segregation on public transit systems to be unconstitutional.
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Once upon a time I bought a pair of plus size jeans online that were steeply discounted without paying much attention to the design.
A few weeks later they came in the mail. They were very loose fitting, used thick jean material, were cut like your ass is non existent, and had huuuuuuge thicccccc pockets.
It took me a little while to realize I had accidentally bought masculine styled jeans. Unusual since this clothing store usually only has feminine plus size clothing.
It's been loose for months now, but I washed it today and it's finally starting to fit right. AND THE POCKETS ARE STILL SO BIG, I LOVE THEM! You could almost fit a whole switch in these bad bois. Very sturdy jeans overall.
Too bad the waist band is still so gaping in the backside that if I don't cover it up with a shirt it gives anyone taller than 3 ft a sneak peak at my ass crack. I can't even remember which clothes pile my belts are in, smh.
Ok, story time over. :snom: ᴵ ⁿᵉᵉᵈ ᵃ ᵗᵃᶦˡᵒʳ.
I've been wearing mens clothes for a while, and the trick is finding those belts, and, if they're available, getting 'stretch' jeans, or anything that has elastic in the fabric or waistline. They might be a bit harder to find but it makes them look like they fit you just fine, doesn't sexualise you like 'womens' clothes can or activate dysphoria if thats an issue, and, of course, the pockets. I've never understood why people carry purses when they could just wear cheaper, comfier jeans instead.
It's refreshing to get a history lesson on collectivist political action that isn't, like, applying patent law to it. Good stuff.
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One of the inactive top mods on WSB clearly just got the bag from Wall Street and is currently doing a mod purge and replacing them with a bunch of new mods lol. Literally modding accounts <24h old with no posting activity.
A couple days ago, I called the clear media blitz and trading platforms locking out retail investors from buying stocks Financial Gladio, and that was apparently right on the money lol.
y'all my roommate and I are baking cupcake sized apple pies and they're about to go in the oven :floppy-parrot:
Of course :sicko-yes:
I'll make a post with pics after they come out of the oven and before when they're done :heart-sickle:
I also just found out that we used cosmic crisp, and they've just come out of the oven COOL FASTER
everyone getting together to bully the terf ceo really was just the best bonding exercise, I was starting to feel a little burnt out on struggle sessions but everyone posting their hearts out today was really nice :heart-sickle: :cat-trans:
The fact that she came to chapo.chat to screenshot the mean things we said about her is hilarious.
No trans people in my space but, I want the trans positive spaces to cater to me!
The bullying continues, we're still living rent free in terf CEO's head
Love these black history month posts. I get so heated when I remember that traditional education about Rosa Parks is “oh well she was tired that day and she didn’t want to move” instead of just teaching that she was an activist with the NAACP for years.
Such a weird thing that traditional school history of the civil right movement is so sanitized to make all of the participants seem so much more passive. That they were just people doing what they had to do. It’s like that we can’t talk about these people as radicals who were challenging an entrenched immoral system because that might encourage others to do the same.
My Alma Mater is purging a student government rep who ran unopposed for wearing a thin blue line mask and being apologetically racist and its totally cool.
All the techbro chuds were upset calling it a mean thing to do and how there should be equal representation with conservatives, until the posts about mixed race "breeding" came to light.
Think it's kinda fucked up how in American schools we never talked about the enormous casualties suffered by the Chinese in WW2
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Got the news my aunt died some hours ago. My mom didn't wanna tell me but she's always loud as hell on the phone so idk what she expected when I figured it out right before I went to work. At first I thought it was someone I didn't know 'cause she cried and came out like nothing happened, but was just distant. It hasn't hit me hard yet, and my response to hearing about family members going is really just emptiness. I don't really express myself and the usual words of consolation just seem so forced and empty. My parents are the only ones in the family I talk to 'cause we moved far away from my family when I was kid. So I may come off as a dick to them, but it's just that I lost any connection I had with them. I can't even speak our native language ffs. I mean I can understand it, but still. Conversations just seem forced and idk what to talk to them about, so I avoid them.
I don't really feel much right now. My mom's sister is gone, and I don't think the last conversation they had together was pleasant. She's older than my mom, but acts like the irresponsible little sister. And now my adult cousins don't have any parents. I was barely around my aunt, and even when I was a child I squirmed away whenever anyone besides my parents held me. She used to jokingly complain that it was my mom's fault. I wish I had given her more hugs.
I'm gonna get the details later this morning. I'm not sure, but it might be the virus. I'm fine, I'm probably gonna get some sleep or bully some TERFs later if I still care. That Sall Grover bitch was @ing some news sites in hopes of getting some media attention (she won't lol) and I wanna have my username and comments there. Goodnight chapos.
My condolences! I think most words people say at times like this are kind of forced. I hope you can be there for your mom. It was the same for me when my mom's brother passed - my personal reaction was more about feeling bad for my mom and my grandparents than about him, as I'd only met him a couple times. That's just how it is sometimes, I think.
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