Rosa Parks – encyclopedia article- refuses to give up her seat

53 years ago on this day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. She was ordered by the bus driver to move to the back of the bus to make room for the white passengers.

An excerpt from her autobiography:

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 as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Courage can come in the most simple of forms.

Carpe Diem

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