Colonel Shanty
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Nov-2-2005 14:55
Rosa Parks, if you don't know, was a civil rights pioneer for all black people in the United States. She, along with Martin Luther King Jr., have helped eliminate most of the segregation and discrimination of black people. Last week, Mrs. Parks died.
She is going to be buried in Detroit, Michigan. . . her hometown. The mourning continues as her body is in Washington, D.C. People mourn.
She brought up a boycott of the city buses of Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 after she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. She was arrested, but released. She sparked a movement which eventually lead to discrimination of black people being banned.
Perhaps you've never heard of her, or just a little bit. But please remember. Go to Wikipedia.org to research more. In the meantime . . . amen to Mrs. Parks.
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jstkdn
Well-Connected
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Nov-3-2005 02:41
Uh, doesn't everybody KNOW the story of Rosa Parks? This great lady is taught in most history classes world wide, it certainly was in mine.
There is a part of me that can't stop thinking that if Rosa Parks were alive today. She would say to stop doing all that hoopla around her death on the news and point to the tragedy in South Asia. The second wave that is even coming, doesn't even hit front page news.
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Makensie Brewer
Super Steeper
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Nov-3-2005 12:22
Agreed Jstdn..I learned about her in my history class for sure..so everyone should know about her,unless they didnt pay attention in school lol :) (actually I hated history and wasnt paying attention half the time but I still knew about Rosa Parks,and who she was. I must've decided to tune in that day) hehe
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Hercule Parrot
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Nov-7-2005 07:48
Well, I certainly don't know it. As I lived in Indonesia, and certainly I didn't learned it from my history. But it's great to know that a woman share place with Marthin Luther King Jr. (although unknown)
It's like Harriet Beecher Stowe who raise the slavery issue in the first place, before the America's civil war.
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