On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks became the first lady of the Civil Rights Movement, with one single act of 'defiance' that would launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Many people grew up believing that Parks didn't want to give up her seat just because she was so tired from work. In her autobiography titled "My Story", she knew what her decision would mean.
"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was of giving in."
Thank you Rosa Parks, for helping change the world.
Yes thank you Rosa, because it does not matter how tired you were or what you were tired from you made a decision to stand and you stood by it! Something we do not see in the world today, people taking a stand even if they fail miserably at the task at hand; simply take a stand! RIP Rosa
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