Most people know that Rosa Parks protested segregation by refusing to give her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
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What many people don’t realize is that this led to a bus boycott for over a year. For her activism, she was fired from her job as a seamstress and received death threats for years. She worked for her local NAACP leader as a secretary, even though he insisted to her women belonged “nowhere but the kitchen.” She asked “what about me?” and continued her work.
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By the time of the bus boycott she had been an activist for over 10 years. She investigated sexual assault cases for black women in need. She spoke against housing discrimination and police brutality and for the freedom of political prisoners until her death in 2005. Her work is not past, it’s still with us today. The buses that once rejected her reserved the front seats with black ribbon to honor her life.
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What many people don’t realize is that this led to a bus boycott for over a year. For her activism, she was fired from her job as a seamstress and received death threats for years. She worked for her local NAACP leader as a secretary, even though he insisted to her women belonged “nowhere but the kitchen.” She asked “what about me?” and continued her work.
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By the time of the bus boycott she had been an activist for over 10 years. She investigated sexual assault cases for black women in need. She spoke against housing discrimination and police brutality and for the freedom of political prisoners until her death in 2005. Her work is not past, it’s still with us today. The buses that once rejected her reserved the front seats with black ribbon to honor her life.
