As we celebrate mothers day I wish to remind all mothers of the courageous legacy of Rosa Parks, following is a short story of ROSA PARKS that I wish to dedicate to all women of the world especially in the developing countries -Africa for that matter.
Rosa Parks’ defiance of an unfair segregation law, which required black passengers to defer to any white person who needed a seat by giving up their own, forever changed race relations in America. She was not the first African American to do this. In fact, two other black women had previously been arrested on buses in Montgomery and were considered by civil rights advocates as potential touch points for challenging the law. However, both women were rejected because community leaders felt they would not gain support. Rosa Parks, with her flawless character, quiet strength, and moral fortitude, was seen as an ideal candidate. Rosa Parks’ subsequent arrest by local police sparked a collective and sustained community response. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery lasted 381 days, marking the country’s first large-scale demonstration against segregation.
President Obama, among many others, credits Rosa Parks’ “singular act of disobedience” with launching a civil rights movement that lasts to this day. “Rosa Parks tells us there’s always something we can do,” he said during a 2013 ceremony to unveil a statue of Parks at the U.S. Capitol, where she is honored alongside past presidents, members of Congress, and military leaders. “She tells us that we all have responsibilities, to ourselves and to one another.”
we hope and pray all women the world over will take a cue from this story and enact a story of courageously taken action to fight, and challenge what is evil, bad, injustices in our society, communities and our respective countries as you mark your day, congrats to all women the world over.
Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293562/
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