"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.
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.