Rosa Parks dead at 92

[lomasmoney]

Detroit Free Press Article

 

Civil rights leader Rosa Parks died today in Detroit at St. John's hospital on the east side of the City. She was 92 years old

 

Discuss her life, her relevance to the civil rights movement, and any thing else, just don't turn this into an ignorant discussion before the first 4 posts

[Dr. Zaius]

One person who definitely helped change America.

[CanadianGuitarist]

I hold her in the same esteem as MLK Jr.

 

Maybe higher.

[Corey_Lazarus]

Discuss her life, her relevance to the civil rights movement, and any thing else, just don't turn this into an ignorant discussion before the first 4 posts

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Don't mind if I do...

 

All she did was sit her ass down because she didn't feel like standing no more.

 

Okay, okay, I stole a joke from Barbershop, I'm sorry. Rosa Parks, by doing such a simple thing that was ultimately unheard of at the time, helped jumpstart the Civil Rights movement, and to see that such a historical figure as her just RECENTLY died is actually something of a shock to me. I thought she died a long time ago, in all honesty.

[The Kid]

Rest In Peace...

[CanadianGuitarist]

I also think she may have indirectly got woman's rights movements of the 70's going...hearing about her getting mugged in 2001 was probably the saddest story I've ever heard.

 

Although, and this isn't meant to add humour, there was an Unsolved Mysteries about a man who was slated to inherit an astronomical, life-changing sum of money, who ultimately wasn't privy to it, as he couldnt be tracked down due to being homeless. That, too, was genuinely depressing.

[USC Wuz Robbed!]

She was alive?

 

edit: In that I mean, I didn't know she was still around until just now.

[The Czech Republic]

It's already a fad you-know-where

[Big Ol' Smitty]

Discuss her life, her relevance to the civil rights movement, and any thing else, just don't turn this into an ignorant discussion before the first 4 posts

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Don't mind if I do...

 

All she did was sit her ass down because she didn't feel like standing no more.

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I know you were just joking, but I think this is a common misconception. Parks was a CR activist well before and long after the famous incident.

 

From Aldon Morris's The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement:

 

in the 1940s Mrs. Parks had refused several times to comply with segregation rules on the buses.  In the early 1940s Mrs. Parks was ejected from a bus for failing to comply.  The very same bus driver who ejected her that time was the one who had her arrested on December 1, 1955...She began serving as secretary for the local NAACP in 1943 and still held that post when arrested in 1955...In the early 1940s Mrs. Parks organized the local NAACP Youth Council...During the 1950s the youth in this organization attempted to borrow books from a white library.  They also took rides and sat in the front seats of segregated buses, then returned to the Youth Council to discuss their acts of defiance with Mrs. Parks.

[Vampiro69]

Anyone see the Colbert Report where he said that Rosa Parks was overrated?

[Sideburnious]

After the first black man to use a white toilet, she's an important figure in my eyes.

[lomasmoney]

Yea, I was so pissed when the assholes who mugged Rosa Parks decided that they would pose as her captors until she called them out as suspects or something of that fact. Off all the old ladies walking around Detroit, they happened to pick the most important one, idiots

[Ravenbomb]

I overheard something on the news that SOUNDED like that the highway that the KKK adopted was renamed the Rosa Parks Highway. Is this true, or did I just mishear them?

 

EDIT: Nevermind, I found a confirmation

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/rosapark.htm