Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92

Chris Luva Luva · Post by **Chris Luva Luva** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:18 am

Rosa Parks, who helped trigger the civil rights movement in the 1950s, died Monday, her longtime friends told CNN. She was 92. Parks inspired the movement when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955. "As the mother of the new civil rights movement, [she] has left an impact not just on the nation, but on the world," said U.S. Rep. John Conyers, who met Parks during the early days of the civil rights struggle...

The rest of the article is here: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/24/parks.obit/index.html

A beautiful woman indeed. Its a shame that all things must eventually come to pass. So many great artists and heros have passed in the recent past. It saddens me when I look towards the future and see nobody stepping up to fill their shoes, I wish that I could have experienced the powerful leaders that came in a time before I was born.

May she rest in peace, I thank God for her. As a young man Im grateful for her sacrifice as it has helped me in everything that I have and hope to accomplish in my life.

R.I.P

Redskins1974 · Post by **Redskins1974** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:05 am

RIP...

REDEEMEDSKIN · Post by **REDEEMEDSKIN** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:16 am

Thank you, Rosa. God bless.

Hoss · Post by **Hoss** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:48 pm

R.I.P. Miss Parks.

Now she has seen the Promised Land!!

skins81 · Post by **skins81** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:26 pm

She was a living piece of history. Her passing is strange indeed.

Hopefully, we will never forget her.

REDEEMEDSKIN · Post by **REDEEMEDSKIN** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:37 pm

skins81 wrote:She was a living piece of history. Her passing is strange indeed.

:hmm: Why is it "strange"?

Look again at what the article's author wrote:Rosa Parks, who helped trigger the civil rights movement in the 1950s, died Monday, her longtime friends told CNN. She was 92.

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:42 pm

Well said, Chris.

RIP Rosa Parks.

stevejrfan78 · Post by **stevejrfan78** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:40 pm

R.I.P.

Redskin in Canada · Post by **Redskin in Canada** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:48 pm

She was the right person in the right bus at the right time. She is a hero for many past, current and future generations.

A sad day, which must be celebrated through her accomplishments.

Punu · Post by **Punu** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:00 pm

I saw this.
She was a woman with a lot of courage, a great heart and a lot of respect for all. Thank you. RIP.

skins81 · Post by **skins81** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:32 pm

REDEEMEDSKIN wrote:
skins81 wrote:She was a living piece of history. Her passing is strange indeed.

:hmm: Why is it "strange"?

Look again at what the article's author wrote:Rosa Parks, who helped trigger the civil rights movement in the 1950s, died Monday, her longtime friends told CNN. She was 92.

If you have to ask, you simply don't get it.
I would say most people on this board have no frame of reference for what the racism she experienced was like. The Klan wasn't something you see in movies or watch on a documentary. She grew up in a time when she would hear the Klan ride and be scared that her house would be burnt down.
Even though lynching was very uncommon at the time, a 14 yr old Chicago kid by the name of Emmett Till was lynched in the Mississippi Delta in 1955. The crime? Talking and maybe whistling to the white shopkeepers wife.
It was the same year Rosa Parks did the simple act of not giving up her seat to a white man because she was tired and had a long day.
That act inspired the formation of the Montgomery Improvement Association. Led by none other than Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
That organization helped organize a boycott of the city bus company that lasted 381 days.
Her trial led to the Supreme Court ruling in 1956 that segregation on public transportation is unconstitutional.
Her act inspired others and helped change public policy.
Now she's left us. For me it's a little strange. Just sayin...
I agree with the way RiC put it nicely.

A sad day, which must be celebrated through her accomplishments.

redskindave · Post by **redskindave** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:25 am

RIP Rosa

JansenFan · Post by **JansenFan** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:32 am

She was a great woman, and I think that in a way her passing is a good thing, because it makes everyone stop and think about where we once where, where we are today and where we can go in the future.

REDEEMEDSKIN · Post by **REDEEMEDSKIN** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:49 am

skins81 wrote:Her act inspired others and helped change public policy.
Now she's left us. For me it's a little strange. Just sayin...

:hmm: "Ju keep jusing that word. Ay do no think it meens wah ju think it meens." :lol:

But...I do agree with the rest of your post. -TRO O:)

JansenFan wrote:...I think that in a way her passing is a good thing, because it makes everyone stop and think about where we once where, where we are today and where we can go in the future.

Right on, JF! It's hard to even imgaine what it must have been like to live in the US during those times. She was a "solid contributor" (football speak) to the civil rights movement in this country.

welch · Post by **welch** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 4:59 pm

Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, the other members of the Montgomery NAACP, Martin Luther King and the other ministers, all the not-famous people who made the bus boycott work, all of them changed my life.

When people tell me that the world is just the way it is -- won't ever change -- I know beter. Because of those people.

tcwest10 · Post by **tcwest10** » Sat Oct 29, 2005 7:33 pm

I wonder if the guy ever got a seat on that bus ?