Today's Labor Quote: Rosa Parks

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

Rosa Parks was the African American seamstress and activist whose refusal to go to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama on this date in 1955 fueled the growing civil rights movement's campaign to win desegregation and end the deep South's racist "Jim Crow" laws.

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